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One family, which had emigrated from Japan and settled at the turn of the century near San Francisco, had established a business in which they grew roses and trucked them into San Francisco three mornings a week.
The other family was a naturalized(加入国籍的)family from Switzerland who also marketed roses, and 1 families became modestly successful, 2 their roses were known in the markets of San Francisco for their 3 vase-life.
For four decades the two families were neighbors, and the sons 4 the farms, but then on December 7, 1941, Japan 5 Pearl Harbor.Although the rest of the family members were American, the 6 of the Japanese family had never been naturalized.In the turmoil(动乱)and the questions about internment camps(拘留营), his neighbor made it clear that, if 7 , he would look after his friend's nursery(花圃).It was 8 each family had learned in church-Love the neighbor as thyself.“You would do 9 for us, ” he told his Japanese friend.
It was not long before the Japanese 10 was transported to a poor landscape in Granada, Colorado.The relocation center consisted of tar-paper-roofed barracks(兵营) 11
by barbed wire and armed guards.
A full year went by.Then two.Then three.While the 12 neighbors were in internment, their friends worked in the greenhouses, the 13 before school and on Saturdays, and the father's work often stretched to 16 and 17 hours.And then 14 , when the war in Europe had
15 , the Japanese family packed up and 16 a train.They were going home.
What would they find? The family was 17 at the train station by their neighbors, and when they got to their home, the whole Japanese family stared..There was the nursery, complete, clean and shining in the sunlight, neat, prosperous and healthy.
So was the balance of the bank passbook 18 to the Japanese father.And the house was 19 as clean and welcoming as the nursery.
And there on the dining room 20 was one perfect red rosebud, just waiting to unfold- the gift of one neighbor to another.
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