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Mother died without knowing where I was.
:45:08
The day...
:45:11
we sang for the Liberation Army.
:45:17
Suppose I was singing for her, too.
:45:23
She never shut her eyes...
:45:27
kept them fixed on the door,
so sure you'd be back.
:45:32
You should have written.
:45:35
Written?
:45:37
I never thought I'd make it back alive.
:45:44
I thought of you...
:45:47
all the time and worried...
:45:49
how you were getting by.
:45:52
The new government
paid for mother's burial...
:45:56
and gave me this job, delivering water.
:45:58
I'm up before dawn.
:46:01
Everyone wants water.
:46:03
The more I deliver, the more I earn.
:46:07
It's been hard on the kids.
:46:10
They never get...
:46:13
a good night's sleep.
:46:16
How come Fengxia can't talk?
:46:19
She was fine when I left.
:46:21
She can't even say "Daddy."
:46:24
In fact, she was lucky.
:46:26
For a week, she ran a high fever.
:46:31
No one thought she'd pull through.
:46:34
When the fever came down...
:46:37
she'd lost her voice.