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husband suggested that I rest in her home for a few
days and when I recover, she would go together with
me to see Dwarf. Then she asked me who the woman
with me was. I told her about how the woman helped
me, saved me and why she had come here. Black
Peony and her husband were moved too. She took
the woman and me to her home. They entertained us
warmly. They promised to help the woman find her
relative and thanked her for me.
The next day I felt much better. I borrowed fifty
Yuan from Black Peony. I bought a bus ticket to Hai
Laer (a city about 200 kilometers away from Man
zhouli) for the woman. The ticket was only worth
about eight Yuan. I gave all the rest of the money I
borrowed from Black Peony to the woman. It was
forty Yuan (That’s quite a lot of money. That sum of
money almost equals my one month’s salary). Then I
wrote my address to her and told her if she needed
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