Do you believe that an expectant mother’s dream will affect her baby’s life? In my country people did.
We believed the dreams of those mothers’ were signs. A dragon might be the sign of a strong boy, or jewelry could mean babies’ rich life. Mothers wanted nice and uncommon dreams for their babies, or attempted to interpret the dreams splendid and rare. A mother would even buy a nice dream from her belongings if she didn’t have one. We still believe it now but with a little difference. It’s because of a quite ordinary story that happened a couple hundred years ago.
Jill was an ordinary girl because her mother got an ordinary dream for her, an apple tree. Her mother tried to interpret it more uncommon but couldn’t. How could an apple tree be uncommon when there were several apple trees in front of her house? She knew that her daughter, Jill, would have an ordinary life with those apple trees. A sign couldn’t be changed.
However, Jill enjoyed her ordinary life. As a 17-year-old girl, she didn’t have talents as the other girls with uncommon dreams, and she was not as attractive as some girls with picturesque dreams. She was so ordinary that she caught nobody’s eye. But she enjoyed her life. She liked her affable parents, her vivacious dog, their old house, the tranquil village and kindly people there. Especially she liked those apple trees because she knew they were her dreams. She treated the apple trees as her friends and tended them very carefully. For this reason, they grew very well.
In an afternoon, when she was reading a book to the trees, a young man came in front of her.