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determination. I said that if I could not become

outstanding, I would not see her. I said that I couldn’t

make good speeches at meetings because I was slow

of tongue and clumsy of speech by nature. But I

could write. I said I would set the Thames on fire.

Otherwise I would disappear from the world.

I soon received a letter from her. She said if I

could amaze the world by a single, brilliant feat she

would immediately marry me.

I spent a few nights in a row writing an article

with the title “Mao Zedong thought lights up the road

to a girl’s heart” and had it published in a local

newspaper. I said before that I was a politically

backward young man. I was very backward. I

couldn’t mouth beautiful political words and couldn’t

write beautiful political articles. So how did I write a

successful political article and have it published in

the local newspaper? Well, I had learnt the most

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