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husbands. Now that I was taken as a rude and brutal

man, girls would keep away from me.

Thirdly, I had listened to the Voice of America. I

was suspected to be a spy who had illicit relations

with America. I was dangerous. I was taken to be an

active counter-revolutionary. ‘Active counter-

revolutionary’ was one of the worst domestic

enemies. They knew how to deal with a class enemy.

They considered me as nothing more than a rat

crossing the street. When they saw me, they would

cry in their minds, “Kill it!”

All the girls would have been armed with Mao

Zedong thought. They knew all the more how to treat

me. They always kept Mao Zedong’s teaching in

minds. The great leader teaches them, “We must be

cruel to our enemy like Autumn wind sweeping away

the fallen leaves.” When the girls saw me, they

would be always ready to “kill” me.

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