The Lost Doll

The Lost Doll

              Maria Del Carmen is the only child of Roberto and Rosa Soto. She is beautiful, right, kind and loving child. However, she is sick from the day of her birth. As time passes, she becomes more and more weak and finally she dies when she turns four. Since everyone in the village loves the child, all of them attend her funeral. They bury the child in the cemetery outside the village.

              After some days, Rosa gives Carmen’s clothes and playthings to the priest from another village. She gives them so that she will be able to forget Carmen easily. Moreover, the doctor says that she won’t be able to give birth to another baby after Carmen. But Roberto doesn’t become happy to hear this. He wants to save the things because he still hopes that Rosa will give birth to another child. He consoles her that because Rosa was busy in taking care of Carmen, god didn’t send her another child. Roberto then remembers the doll with which Carmen often used to play and asks Rosa whether she has given that doll too. But Rosa says the doll was not with other things. They search for the doll everywhere but they can’t find it.

              Rosa becomes pregnant and on the first anniversary of the death of Carmen she gives birth to another baby. It was good news for them so the priest also gives the name ‘Evangelina’ to the child which means good news. As Evangelina grows up she looks more and more like Carmen. Her actions and characters are also similar to her sister. The only difference is that Evangelina is healthy. One day, when Evangelina turns four, she asks her mother whether she was sick for a long time back. But the mother says it was not she but her sister was sick. Evangelina insists that she remembers it very well and also asks her auntie about it. She also adds that she had a doll with blue eyes and red dress and she had put it under a big tree in the yard. She then takes them to that place and asks to dig there. When they dig the ground they find the doll there. Rosa can’t believe her eyes and becomes speechless. But when Rosa’s sister asks Evangelina to tell everything about what she remembers, she says that when she was sick the priest prayed with his hand on her head. Then she went to sleep. A real nice man woke her up and took her. But he didn’t allow her to take the doll with her. So, she put the doll under the tree. Rosa becomes shocked when she hears the whole story.

              This is the story of reincarnation or rebirth in which Carmen is reborn as Evangelina. She is not only reborn but remembers everything that happened to her in her previous life.