美国五岁女孩逝后留给家人的爱的留言条

                
                
Notes Left Behind' Inspired by 5-Year-Old
美国五岁女孩逝后留给家人的爱的留言条
Young Girl Left Notes for Her Family to Find as She Died of Cancer
女孩为癌症逝后的她给家人写的爱心留言条
Dec. 19, 2008
After 5-year-old Elena Desserich was diagnosed with an inoperable kind of cancer, she managed to spread a message of hope and healing.
Elena Desserich五岁的时候被诊断患上一种无法手术治疗的癌症，之后她就开始自己的希望与抚慰信息的传播。
Elena Desserich's parents say she was wise beyond her years.
Elena Desserich的父母说她有着超出她这个年龄的聪慧。
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Elena knew that every coming day would be a gift, not to be wasted, so she created a to-do list of sorts -- swim with dolphins, drive a car and more.
Elena Desserich知道每一天都是上天赐予的礼物，是不可以被浪费掉的，她列了个自己想要做的事情的单子——比如和海豚一起游泳，驾驶汽车等等。
When her cancer progressed and she could no longer speak, she turned to drawing and painting, her kindergarten passions, to communicate.
当她的癌症恶化以至于她不能够再说话以后，她选择了画画（她在幼儿园时的最爱）来进行交流。
The talented artist fulfilled her lifelong dream when one of her drawings was hung next to her favorite painter, Pablo Picasso, at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The painting titled "I Love You" captured her giving spirit.
这位天赋的小艺术家实现了她毕生的梦想，她画的一幅画在辛辛那提美术馆被挂在了她最喜爱的画家毕加索作品的傍边。这幅画的名字就叫“我爱你”。这幅作品最充分的体现出了她的奉献精神。
"The picture is made for everybody else, and so she called it, 'I Love You.' Very simple but it's Elena," her dad, Keith Desserich, said.
她的爸爸，Keith Desserich说“这幅画是为每一个人画的，所以她把它称为”我爱你“，很简单，这就是Elena。”
Elena, who died in August 2007, also left behind "The Kindergarten Survival Guide" for her younger sister Grace.
Elena ，过世于2007年8月。还给自己的妹妹Grace留下了作品“幼儿园生存手册”。
She gave her dad a last dance.
她把自己最后的一支舞给了爸爸。
"We had our dance and that will always be the last and probably the best memory I'll ever have with her was being able to have that dance," Keith Desserich said. "There was lots of things that she wanted to do that last day, and I think she knew. We lost her two days later."
“我们一起跳了最后一支舞，这将永远的是最后的一支舞，能够和她享有这支舞可能是我和她在一起的的记忆中最最美好的篇章。” Keith Desserich接着说：“在她生命意义中的那最后一天她想做很多事情，而且我想她知道那是最后的时刻。两天以后，我们永远的失去了她。“
During her nine-month battle with cancer, Elena was planning an even greater gift for her family. She was hiding notes around the house, hundreds of them tucked in every corner to be discovered after she was gone.
在她与癌症做斗争的9个月里，Elena还给她的家人们准备了一份更为丰厚的礼物，她在房子的无数角落里藏了几百张爱的留言条。留给她的家人在她逝后去发现和阅读。
"We were moving some boxes around one day and in between some of the books a note fell out," her mother, Brooke Desserich, said. "Each time I would read one of those notes it was like a little hug from her."
”有天我们搬挪一些箱子，一张纸条从几本书之间掉了出来。“Elena的妈妈Brooke Desserich回忆说，”每次我读到这些爱的留言条的时候，就如同小Elena给了我一个小小的拥抱“。
Throughout the ordeal, the Wyoming parents kept an online journal to update family members on Elena's progress. They were surprised to learn that thousands of people around the country were reading it for daily inspiration.
在整个的这次痛苦的经历期间，来自怀俄明州的这对儿父母建立了一个网上日志，为亲属们报告更新Elena病情的情况。令他们吃惊的是全国成千上万的人们都来读这些日志作为每天激励自己的动力。
"Everybody was reading the journal and going, 'This taught me to be a better parent. It taught me to spend time with my children, it taught me to value being a mom and dad,'" Keith Desserich said.
”每个人都在读或想要读这个日志，日志让我懂得了怎么去做一个更好的父母，告诉了我应该花更多的时间和我的孩子们在一起，同时也让我明白了为人父母的价值。“Keith Desserich表示。
Her parents have now compiled the daily journals in a book titled "Notes Left Behind" and created a foundation to raise money to find a cure for pediatric brain cancer -- all of it inspired by the simple notes a little girl left behind.
Elena的父母现在把那些每天的日志编辑成了一本书，书名叫：”离去后的留言条“并且建立了一个为研究儿童脑癌治疗方法筹集资金的基金会。所有这些都是被Elena离去后那些简单的爱的留言条所激励而完成的。
Visit the Desserich family's Web site www.TheCureStartsNow.org.