A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the kerb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, " I wanted to buy a red rose for my mum but I only have seventy five cents, and a red rose costs two dollars".
The man smiled and said, " come with me and I will buy you a red rose".
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers.
As they were leaving the florists he offered the little girl a lift home. She said "yes please, you can take me to my mum".
She directed him to a cemetery where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave. The man returned to the flower shop, cancelled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother's house.
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