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Dearest Classmates, a Letter to You

Translated… On the Eighth of the Chinese Lunar Calendar year, at the age of sixty, you all not cared about how cold the wind was, how strong it’d rained down too, came to my place as guests. Hugging each and … Continue reading

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Can We Have Another Cup of Tea Together Again?

A letter to you, translated… How long’s it been, since I’d calmed myself down, and make a pot of oolong that you loved so much? Last year, you’d started working two jobs, became too very busy, and you’d not have … Continue reading

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Dodo, from Indonesia, the United Nation of Friends

Translated… Dodo’s hometown is in the Pati District in Middle Java, in his childhood, he’d “crammed” too, it’s just, that the cramming he’d done was quite different than the kind of cramming here… When the “Southeast Asia Mobile Library” drifted … Continue reading

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Supporting One Another

not my picture… Besties, translated… My friend and I played ball together since we were growing up, we are very good together, our movements became like mirrored images, we’d known one another’s next moves.  And, as we’d played our games, … Continue reading

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He’d Lost His Hair Due to Chemotherapy, His Buddies All Shaved Their Heads to Support Him

and no, not my photograph… The love and support from his friends, from the Front Page Sections, translated… “Let’s all shave our heads!” the community security guard, Lin is in his fourth stage of lung adenocarcinoma, last year, the cancer … Continue reading

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I Have a Good Friend, Experiences of Life

Translated… That day, I tried to help my students reexamine the meaning of “good friends”. The young students, at the age of youthfulness, eleven, I’d asked the entire class, “What is a friend?”, in the audience came the passionate replies, … Continue reading

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The True Meaning of Friendship

Translated… After I’d finished up with work in Taipei, I’d often gone to my mother-in-law’s ancestral home to visit her. Twenty years ago, my father-in-law, in a morning when it was a cold front, on the way to check his … Continue reading

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