The Lost Doll

The story is set in a village of Colombia. The main characters are Rosa Soto, her two daughters Maria Del Carmen and Evangelina. Other characters are Rosa’s husband Roberto and sister from Bogota.

            The story is about reincarnation. Little Carmen was the Soto’s first child. Carmen was beautiful, bright and loving, but with frail health. She died shortly after she turned to her fourth spring. Everyone in the village participated in her funeral. At her birth, a doctor told Rosa that she would not bear other children. She believed him truly. So she gave Carmen’s playthings including clothes to a priest from another village. But she could not find a lost doll that Carmen had always carried around with her. The doll was beautiful with blue eyes and a red dress.

            They searched for the doll in the house, and also asked the priest if it was gone with her clothes. But he said that is was not. Even they asked the undertaker. However, they could not find the doll. On the passage of time Rosa got pregnant which helped them forget the beautiful doll. Exactly the year after Carmen’s death, Rosa gave birth to another daughter. She was named Evangelina which meant good news. Unlike her dead sister Carmen, Evangelina was healthy, but in other aspects such as body build, appearance and even in manner she was exactly like Carmen. Evangelina always thought she used to be sick, but it was really her dead sister who was sick.

            One day Evangelina said she knew where the doll had been kept. She pointed to the ground under a big tree. Rosa and her sister it with a shovel and found the doll. She asked Evangelina how she knew where the doll had been buried. Evangelina said she kept it there when she had been sick and a kind man helped her to bury it. Then he took her with him.