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There were two gardens,the first was what we called the Rose Garden. At the end of this
garden was a trellis which was coverd with a climbing variety of roses. Beyond the trellis was the
second garden. It had a lawn in the middle with flower beds surrounding it.

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She used to watch her Dad taking her Mom and elder sister to the Opera.They dressed up so
beautifully for those occasions and there was always a box of chocolates. At that time, she was a
young girl who felt that there would be numerous operas and boxes of chocolates waiting for her
in the future.
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Sometimes it makes one wonder whether or not the character of a person was established
since childhood. Probably, a rich and bright life is the best nutrition for the cultivation of a pure
and tenacious character.
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Within the tenderness and purity of a young beauty,who was quite different from a model,
there existed something solid and glittering, which also made her dirrerent from Venus. Something
lucent and sharp as a gem can be sensed sparkling in her charming eyes.

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Sitting in front of her worn green curtain, Daisy lightly drew the air towards herself with her
fingers. Raising her face with her eyes half shut, she spoke with appreciation:"Can you smell the
fragrance of osmanthus flowers in the air? Such sweet aroma!"
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Her daughter Jingshu once said that mother's bearing was the result of the education received
from Yenching Univertiey. Being together with Daisy, sometimes I felt the urge to plan time for
some adult ballet lesson.
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She returned to Shanghai from Beijing, and she considered Shanghai to be her hometown.
Her love was in Shanghai, and her future home would be in Shanghai, therefore she figured that
her paradise would also be in Shanghai.
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1934

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They were those who pursue life, considering happiness as the bottom line. They hold a
proud attitude towards life as if playing a game, not willing to compromise, and not willing to
bend in front of it.

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Behind her self esteem, behind her grace and restraint, there might behidden some kind of
hurt caused by disloyalty. She fell in love with a really amiable husband, who might not be totally
satisfied with mere family life.

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She was a modern female who was ambitious to establish her own independent cause, and
not a woman whose job was only to wait upon her husband. Thus, for the first time, she showed
her own will, striving for the ideal of an independent life.
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1944

Pregnancy takes away from a woman the sense of mystique and treasure towards her own
body while she was a maiden. It also takes away the self confidence of a pretty gril. The body,
which has carried a baby, is by no means tender any more.

1936

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1939

1943
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1945

Easy Come Easy Go

Together with a few friends, she asked an exiled White Russian chef, who used to serve in the
Royal Russian Palace, to come over and teach them make cakes. Thereafter, Daisy would never
like to have the cakes sold at the local bakeries.

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Pollyanna would always say:"I have never believed that we ought to deny discomfort and
pain and evil, I have merely thought that it is far better to greet the unknown with a cheer."
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After this, her life full of upheavals. Like a nut being smashed open, her soul and spirit sent
forth such aroma, which would not have been given out if they were confined by ordinary life.
Since then, her life became one that was aesthetic. Others saw magnificence in it, yet she herself
endured endless suffering.

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They often traveled between Shanghai and HongKong, and never felt the necessity to leave

forever. At the time they really believed, as all Chinese people, that the Fifties were the Golden
Age.
1951
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1955

This was the first time that I saw Daisy with slacks in her photograph, and it felt strange. This
reminded me of once seeing a girl, wit hbeautiful Japanese silk stockings, put on a pair of white
sneakers.

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After forty, the life that she had experienced gradually enriched her mentality, and since then,
her mentality modified her feature bit by bit. It showed in her wrinkles, her eyes, her shaded smile,
and her lips.

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At the time, under the decorative rock behind them, there was a hole dug in 1952. A pistol
was hidden in that hole, That was the third pistol that her husband took care of for George.
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They never discussed his feelings towards the plight he was in. Maybe Daisy was not as
strong as she became later, and neither of them wanted to face the grave shadow that was reaching
out for them at any moment. Maybe they wanted to pretend that nothing had ever happened.

1956

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1958

In the general mood of simple cheerfulness, the age of madness and turbulence was
approaching step by step. The situation was like a pot of water being boiled. The pot was heating
up, and was getting red hot. The process was long and tranquil, yet the water would boil
eventually.

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She upheld her own choice, and did not discard it just because it did not bring her the joy and
happiness that she expected, she enjoyed and cherished the fun that she got from her choice, and
did not evaluate others according to her own gain.

1952

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That day I learned that, after being kicked out from her own house, with method like this she
made many St.Petersburg styled cakes, using pots blackened by smoke from her coal ball stove in
the slums.

1961

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Toast

If one day you do not have an oven, you should know how to make toast with an iron wire
frame.This is what you really need to learn, and to learn right now.

1934

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She never told her children that she was sorry, and never complained about her husband. She
restrained her shock and sorrow for being widowed at middle age, and concealed from her
children the gloom and grief which she felt.This is how a mother takes pains in loving and
protecting her children.

1963

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Those dark personal feelings mingled with criticism burst out like these wage breaking out
while the drainage is suddenly busted. It might spout very high, as if it were eruptive fountain.

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She tried her best to keep calm, to avoid using language with emotion, but she could no

longer be at ease. She was like a kid who fell and cut her knee, although in great pain, she would
only dear to peek at the bleeding with a quick glance, not having the courage to look into it
directly.
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A person, who was suffering not for the masses, could still keep one's tough dignity. Being an
ordinary woman, she was doing all this in order to maintain her own clean record, not willing to
let her children encounter any more mishap because of her.
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It was proven that I was not a capitalist, it was proven by them! Yet, like all capitalists, I have
suffered a lot, and they were the ones, who made me suffer. This certificate is the proof."

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She was always energetic, and people all wanted to be with her. At the gathering of relatives
in Shanghai, it would be boring if she were not there. When going to the restaurant for a meal,
even the young people there could not take their eyes off her.
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They would make an appointment to the tea house at a park,or to a friend's place. Daisy
would always be together with Mr.Wang.

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They suddenly woke up something in my heart, just like those worn out buildings of the
colonial age, which stand along the streets in Shanghai. These buildings would wake up the
history of a city.

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That was like the feelings of islanders, who stepped onto a vast continent ,which they had
seldom been upon. The islanders would suddenly discover that they such colorful prospects, and
would be obliged to quickly forget those old drawbridges that they first used to escape from the
islands.

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I like this photo very much.I thought that if I died,I would want people to remember me with
this image.
This photo shows that I am still working.
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As for Daisy's piano, she went searching in the suburbs, but the one she found there wasn't
hers. Then she was drawn to Suzhou, and the one there wasn't her either. Finally she was notified
to go to Guangzhou to identify her piano, but she was reluctant to make that long journey.

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In her memoirs she recorded her experiences during the long periods of the "Four Cleanup
Campaign" and the "Cultural Revolution". There were many things that her own children first
learned about from her memoirs.

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Now she has come back alone, smilling in the sunshine that once upon a time shone on her.
She will never again wear that skirt trimmed with white laces, and her shoes will never again be in
such a clean state that one cannot tell the sole from the vamp. Her face lights up with deep smile,
which is typical for the elderly.

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Songlin said that it depended upon the individual person, not upon the class that the person
belonged to. A former maid always used to bad-mouth him in front of the mistress, even accusing
him of breaking dishes so that he would be reprimanded. In the end, it was that maid who stole
U.S. dollars from mistress.

1976

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I talked about the analogy to the cracked walnut, mentioned the aesthetic life, which was
painful for a gentle female. She looked into my eyes and said:"If life really wanted to bestow
something upon me. I would just accept it."
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