Remembering the kindness that her nanny had, shown her, and kept it in her heart all these years, and finally, she’d come back, to find her nanny from when she was only a baby, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The sixty-one year-old American woman, “Linda” over fifty years ago, followed her father’s work of consulting for the American armed services to Taiwan, because she was only seven, eight years old, her father hired a Taiwanese nanny, Yueh-Jiao Chen to take care of her, and three years later, he’d moved the family back to the States again.
After Linda went back to the U.S. she’d lost contact with Yueh-Jiao Chen, but, for over fifty years, she’d never forgotten how much love that the woman took, to look after her, awhile ago, she’d had three baby photos to come find her, and, with the help from the police, she’d finally, gotten her wish, and saw this “older sister” after half a century’s time.
Now, Chen is already a seventy-seven year-old grandmother, and, as the police called her up, she was, thrilled, she thought it was, the scam artists, she couldn’t believe, that the little girl from over fifty years ago still remembered her; as Linda saw Chen, she’d continually thanked her for her caretaking, for filling up her childhood with all the good memories.
the photo taken in front of the police museums, from UND.com…
The police department said, that on February 12th, Linda came to Taiwan to tour with her children, she’s departing today; on the 13th, she and her children showed up at the police station, asked for help, told them that the purpose of her trip this time, was to find the nanny who looked after her over fifty years ago, and showed them three photos, along with the only letter that Chen had sent to them.
The police tracked down Chen using her old address, they’d met up at the police station on the 15th. Linda said, that as she returned back to the U.S. her parents had sent letters by the year to maintain connection with Chen, but because Chen may not have been fluent in English, she’d only written them back once, then, they’d, lost contact. The two of them were both accompanied by their own children, and reunited in the police station.
Chen smiled and said to Linda, she can’t believe, that the little girl back then, is already, a mother of two now.
the photos of the Taiwanese woman and the American children she’d, taken care of, from the archives, from UDN.com
And so, their connections didn’t get lost, just because the years had flown by, or that, they’re, older, all because, this American woman felt grateful, of the care that’s been, provided by her Taiwanese caretaker from when she was, a young child.
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