Many years have passed. Her daughters got married one after another. Of course, the wedding dress was sewn by their mother. Her son has gone to the outside world and settled in a distant country. He writes to his mother from time to time, but she has been busy all her life and hasn't learned to read. She put the letter in a box and tied it with a ribbon, waiting for a friend in a nearby town to read it to her.
When a woman is old, she can't work any more. She still likes making clothes, but she can't afford the expensive cloth she used to use. Finally, she became weaker and weaker and could not take care of herself. Her friend invited her to stay, and her things were put in a box at the foot of the bed.
The old woman is too weak to walk. She lies in bed every day and looks at the shadow of the sun on the wall.
"If only you could read!" Her friend said, "Then your heart will not be empty."
That night, the old woman dreamed of a special book with red, blue and gold pages full of stories and memories. That book is amazing. If you touch it, it can take you to a distant country. In her dream, the old woman flew around the world to visit her children and let her grandchildren jump on their knees.
The next morning, the old woman suddenly understood what she should do. She asked her friend to open her old box and put it where she could get it. There are letters from children in the box, as well as rags left by her years of making clothes. She carefully cut all the bits and pieces of cloth into a rectangle like a book. Slowly, she sewed them together with stiff fingers to make a quilt.
The beautiful quilt completely covered the old woman's bed. When she stroked the quilt cover with her fingers, she wandered to distant places, thinking about the memories carried by each piece of cloth.
"This is a book that I can read." She said that she would never be sad again.