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that he pissed his pants and ran away, leaving my
mother behind.”
“Why was he so scared?”
“That woman was his wife! She was very rich.
The man became a millionaire only because he
married her. Her father was the chief of a famous
gang. So he was afraid of her. My mother had been
cheated. She was his concubine. The woman insulted
my mother in front of many people. She said that my
mother was a seductive woman and specialized in
enticing men. She gave my mother a slap in public
and my mother’s mouth bled. The only thing my
mother could do was to weep and endure her
humiliation. As a woman in the feudal society in
China, she could do nothing but submit to fate. At
last, she was abandoned.”
“Did your father die?”
“No, he didn’t.”
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