Category Archives: Losses & Gains

A Pair of Pink Sandals, Memories of Childhood

Translated… When I was younger, I always go through two pairs of shoes a year. After the New Year’s Eve’s meal, my mother would hand a pair of new shoes to me, and, I was so excited, holding on to … Continue reading

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Behind Her Sunny Smiles, Were the Fifteen Years’ of Loss, She Was Once, Unregistered, a “Ghost”, Who Was Almost Sold by Her Own Mother

Overcoming all the obstacles in her life, and she became, she was always meant to become, from the Newspapers, translated… From an unregistered person into a sunny girl, the twenty-three-year-old store manager, Shu-Ting Hong would always greet her shoppers with … Continue reading

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My Heart Doesn’t Know it’s Goodbye…

My heart doesn’t know it’s goodbye, it’s not yet ready, to separate, but, I’d waited, for so very long, and I am, getting jumpier and jumpier now by the day… My heart doesn’t know it’s goodbye, it still wanted to, … Continue reading

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Love Helped Us Through the Losses

Translated… Dearest Turtle, as great aunt entered into the restaurant’s corner, I saw you surrounded by your cousin aunts and uncles, seeing how your maternal grandfather was showing you a never-before kind of kindness, and seeing how your great grandmother … Continue reading

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Goodbye: A Conversation in My Head

Originally posted on loveletterstoaghost:
“It’s over now, isn’t it?” “Yes, I believe so.” “All of it? The talking too? Because that’s what I miss out of everything.” “We can still talk. How are you dealing with the rest of it?”…

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Broken Mind

The Process of Breaking, Painful, but Beautiful…

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His Drunk-Driving Punishment Was to Teach People to Cook, Selling Noodles Became his Second Way to Make a Living

Turning his life around, while helping others in the process too, from the Front Page Sections, translated… A man in his seventies, Rong-Chun Lin from Nantou was caught, drunk driving for a third time, sentenced to six months in prison, … Continue reading

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Goodbye, Rui-Lien

Remembering someone who was so very close to you, by, playing the character that she was in life, to commemorate her in death, translated… Being able to see Rui-Lien for the third time made me so ecstatic, I believe, that … Continue reading

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In This Garden of Lost Innocence…

This, is the garden of lost innocence, the very first time Adam & Eve first tasted the forbidden fruits of knowledge, and learned what shame is! not my painting here… In this garden of lost innocence, you will find, a … Continue reading

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Love Through the Seasons

Translated… Time passes by so quickly like the steeds running past, in a blink of an eye, it’d been, a year, since my dearly beloved Kai had died, and still, this excruciating pain inside of me still never ceased one … Continue reading

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