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Read this heart-warming story and see if you don't get chills.

On a cold day in 1942, inside a Nazi concentration camp, a lone young boy looks beyond the barbed wire and sees a young girl pass by. She too, is moved by his presence. In an effort to give expression to her feelings, she throws a red apple over the fence--a sign of life, hope and love. The young boy bends over and picks up the apple. A ray of light has pierced his darkness. The following day, the young girls passes by again. Despite another day of wintery blizzards and chilling air, two hearts are warmed once again as the apple passes over the barbed wire. The scene is repeated several days. One day, the young boy greets his sweet friend with a frown and says, "Tomorrow don't bring me an apple. I will not be here. They are sending me to another camp." The young boy walks away too heartbroken to look back. His family died in the war and the life he had known all but vanished, except this one memory remained alive and gave him hope.

In 1957 in the United States, two adults, both immigrants, are set up on a blind date. "And where were you during the war?" inquires the woman? "I was in a concentration camp in Germany," the man replies.

"I remember I used to throw apples over the fence to a boy who was in a concentration camp," she recalls. With a feeling of shock, the man speaks, "Did that boy say to you one day, 'Don't bring an apple anymore because I am being sent to another camp'?"

"Why, yes," she responds, "but how could you possibly know that?" He looks into her eyes and says, "I was that young boy."

There is a brief silence, and then he continues, "I was separated from you then and I don't ever want to be without you again. Will you marry me?" They embrace one another as she says, "Yes."

This story comes from "Small Miracles" by Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal. A very good read!

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