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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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