A Pen and a Composition Book

Perhaps it was the most unappreciative gift: a pen and a composition book wrapped in red paper imprinted with Santa image riding his sleight... I expected toys I could play with after school or later. My sisters received many gifts from leather shoes to wool hats, and as I held that gift with perplexity, Mother asked me, " Son, don't you like it? " " I like it, Ma " I replied disappointingly... " One day they will make you great! She attested with eloquence. " A teen like me was going to be great with a pen and a composition book? How could an ordinary mother have predicted the future so precisely? ' Only an astrologer, or medium could have guessed what was awaiting me! A few years later, a revelation came to light: a pen and composition book appeared in my sight, there in a brown shoe box with old photographs they laid... waiting for a hand to give them life without any magic wand.