Get out that hankie.  You're going to need it.  
I truly love this little story.

A teary-eyed LadyHawke
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The Integrity Of Love
    
A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be 
wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he 
got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb 
sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, 
"I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have 
seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars." 
The man smiled and said, 
"Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose."
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's 
flowers. As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home. 
She said, "Yes, please! You can take me to my mother."

She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on 
a freshly dug grave. 

The man returned to the flower shop, cancelled the wire order, 
picked up a bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his 
mother's house.
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This is a country/western song sung by C.W. McCall 
under the name of "Roses For Mama."