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母親の想い


授業活用例:
 Point out a contradiction in this passage.

解答例:
・The mother who was dead "asked" a couple for help.
・The woman who asked the couple on the road to help her baby was dead with her seatbelt on in a crashed car.

在天の母のわが子を想う一念が、自身の魂を具現化したとされる逸話です。

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Mother

  One afternoon, a couple was travelling on the road when all of a sudden at a far distance they saw a woman in the middle of the road asking them to stop. The wife told her husband to keep on driving because it might be too dangerous, but the husband decided to pass by slowly so he wouldn't stay with the doubt on his mind of what might have happened and the chances of anyone being hurt. As they got closer, they noticed a woman with cuts and bruises on her face as well as on her arms. They then decided to stop and see if they could be of any help.
  The cut and bruised woman was begging for help telling them that she had been in a car accident and that her husband and a son, a new born baby, were still inside a car which was in a deep ditch. She told them that the husband was already dead but her baby seemed to still be alive. The husband that was travelling decided to get down and try to rescue the baby and he asked the hurt woman to stay with his wife inside their car.
  When he got down he noticed two people in the front seats of the car but didn't pay any importance to it and took out the baby quickly and got up to take the baby to it's mother. When he got up, he didn't see the mother anywhere so he asked his wife where she had gone.
  She told him that the woman followed him back to the crashed car. When the man decided to go look for the woman, he noticed that clearly the two people in the front seats were dead; a woman and a man with both their seatbelts on. When he looked closer, he noticed that it was exactly the same woman that was begging for help in the beginning.

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