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  • As I walked out of the cemetery, I saw someone I hadn’t expected–my dad. Jackson must have gone

  • to see him, which is how he found out about my mom’s camera. He must have also known that I was

  • back.

  • With a somewhat tentative tone, he asked, “Have you eaten?”

  • I didn’t respond immediately and asked, “What do you want from me?”

  • He hesitated for a moment before speaking, “Could you come home for a while?”

  • I couldn’t hold back a sarcastic laugh. “You’ve always told me to stay away. I’ve followed your

  • wishes, so why now, all of a sudden, do you want me to return?”

  • His voice trembled as he said, “… Your sister is ill. She has cancer.”

  • I froze for a moment, taken aback.

  • “I’ve tried everything… we’ve sold everything we can. You’re her sister. Could you help her?”

  • His face was full of sorrow and regret.

  • you resent me, but it wasn’t what I wanted. It wasn’t my choice to push

  • could I ever bear to send

  • my reasons.”

  • our past was a tangled

  • happy, eager to tell him that I was going to follow in my

  • too. How are we

  • her to adulthood. Isn’t that

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  • either her or me in this family!”

  • on the street alone for the rest of the afternoon. That entire summer, I lived in

  • me to report to college, I thought I had everything figured out. It felt like a new beginning, yet my world shattered.

  • our home to fall apart again, so you sacrificed me. No matter how much it hurt,

  • I interrupted, “I don’t resent you. I

  • daughter, you’re not a terrible father, but you’re

  • for my phone and transferred 300,000 yuan to him. Over the years, he’d sent money into my account from time to time, and I had saved it all, planning to repay him

  • right.

  • you gave me. The rest… let it be my

  • come looking for

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  • I left the restaurant, I felt a wave of lightness wash over me. All the burdens that had weighed

  • turned a corner and found myself at the flower shop where Joseph had once bought my mother the bird–of–paradise flowers. The owner recognized me, but the shop was almost empty. She

  • “Where are you moving these to?”

  • down! I want to try

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