Compassion in the Past Tense
In my memory, she was a frail, waif-like, sad-looking girl with long messy hair. She used to like eating popsicles, which did her teeth a lot of harm. She had a wonderful father who doted on her.
That was over fifty years ago. She was surnamed Lau, and was in the same class as I for three years during our six primary school years. Her father seemed to ha…
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