Writer R returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. In the letter she recounts her life-long fixation on the writer, while the writer is not able to remember this woman, even after he seduces her twice and impregnates her. She falls in an unrequited love with the writer 18 year ago when he moved in as her neighbour. She was only 13 then and started to love the writer in her own way. She is reverting to love and never understand cynical man. He has been a real philander and toys with the emotion of women……
She bears the child herself, not letting the writer know. To make a living, she has been a woman of the streets, and a woman of the world. Her affection towards the writer never diminish with time. On his birthday of every year, she sends a bunch of white rose to him, but he never figures out who has sent them.
Shortly after her son died of typhoid, she lost her willingness to live in this word. She writes this letter to the writer telling him of her self-sacrificing love to him. The writer tried his best to remember this woman in his memory, but failed. As he looks up, he finds the vase on the table is empty. Every year on his birthday, there is always a bunch of white rose sent in and placed in the vase…….
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