w******k
发帖数: 198 | 1 All she knew of him was his family name Lee, his given name Tien-Min and his
head counselor’s job title at the training center. She thought she would
never see him again after the seminar. However, it turned out that one of
her friends in junior college was married to one of his friends. They met
again through the couple and fell in love.
Many Chinese families were separated the same way that year. The father
working for the Nationalist government went to Taiwan. The mother and
children remained in mainland China. In most cases, the separation continued
for more than three decades until the two Chinese governments began to
allow unofficial communication in the 1980s. That could have been the case
for the Lee family, and in that case I would have never been born.
Before I became the baby of the reunited Lee family, my parents had one more
daughter in 1953. It was not easy to raise six children with my legislator
father’s fixed salary and my PE teacher mother’s small income. My parents
didn’t want more children. No one expected my mother to accidentally get
pregnant in 1961. |
|
