Tag Archives: Social Support

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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With the Scars, Still Intact…the Four Women Shared Their Stories of Enduring Through Domestic Violence, Supported One Another Emotionally

nope, still NOT my photograh here… Sharing their stories here, from the Front Page Sections, translated… “Grace”, “Happy”, “Yi”, and “Rou”, these four women had varied backgrounds, but, they’d shared the common bond of being abused in marriage, they still … 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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Those of Us, Who’d Lost Our Breasts to Cancer

Losses in life, translated… Once, at my check up to see if I have a relapse of breast cancer, the technician asked me, if the jade I wear around my neck, across my chest was for the sake of warding … Continue reading

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My Young Daughter Won Her Fight Against Cancer, with the Love from Others

Hardship in a young life here, translated… At the tender age of twenty, an accident had caused my daughter to have blurred vision in her right eye, and, accidentally, they’d discovered a tumor behind her upper nasal passageway.  At this … Continue reading

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