Answer: D. One short experience can have lifelong meaning.
Explanation: the story talks about lasting impressions made on the narrator that transcends life and death. He meets a woman so lovely and his reminiscences about their encounter. The story from the start where he was speaking with a friend to when he opened a mysterious gift at the end entails life-changing encounters for the narrator which ultimately shows that one shows that one experience can really have lifelong, life-changing meaning.