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Long time ago when my sister and I were little we practice gymnastics. From Monday to Friday my mother went to see our class and stayed with the other parents talking. One day the mother of a friend gave her a cactus, it was so small and fragile, she told my mother that it will grow and flowers will blossom from it. My mother was really excited with the cactus and she planted it in a flowerpot. We always saw my mother looking after the plant, watering it when needed and covering it from the cold. She started buying the gels that give nutrients to the plant and gardening materials to keep the plant in a good state. Years passed and it became a huge cactus, it measured more than a meter and suddenly we found out that something was blossoming from it. They were white flowers, beautiful and natural flowers. Some months later we started receiving the visit of a hummingbird who came for the nectar of the flower. My mother like so much seeing the hummingbird arriving at the cactus and it stayed there for a couple of minutes and then leave. It was her relaxation time.  A windy day she had a reunion on the house and her friends came, one of her friends told her that the cactus was really beautiful but to be careful because the wind could damage it. They passed less than two hours and the wind throw the cactus and it get damaged. We could not lift it because the spikes could hurt somebody; we wait for three days until some people came to do that work. My mother was really sad because the branch that had the flowers break down and the hummingbird stopped coming for the nectar of the flowers. She continued taking care of it because she wanted to have again those beautiful flowers it once had. Then we moved of house and she make some men bring the cactus to our new place, it was a really difficult task because of the thorns, the size and the weight but she will not leave it in the other house were it was going to stop having maintenance. She have always take care of that cactus, for my mother that natural plant give her joy and serenity, and to keep that feelings she take care of it since the day they gave it to her until now.