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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
“Why did you come here?”
“I came here to apologize. I had been waiting for
the day when I could apologize to you face to face.
I’ve felt guilty for what I have done - too guilty to
even sleep. I have been looking for you. I came here
to beg for your forgiveness.”
“You don’t have to condemn yourself so much.
Let bygones be bygones.”
“Then why did you leave school in such a hurry
that you didn’t even say good bye to me?”
“I had nothing to speak to you about.”
“I went to the train station, but you had gone.
You don’t know how much I regretted it. My heart
was bleeding!”
“I have said already that you don’t have to
condemn yourself like that.”
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