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Just like that, the difficult and poor times of my family and I have been gone for more than ten years. To have a life with a stable economy like today is a process of hardship, hard work and struggle of my parents and my siblings.
When I was a child, my family was very poor. Poverty was persistent and evident in the patched clothes that my parents wore every day. My siblings and I went to school without the same neat clothes as the children in the neighborhood. The clothes were like that, the food was also difficult when the whole family of 5 people had only a few cans of rice mixed with potatoes, corn, etc. Every morning when we went to school, while the children in the neighborhood often ate fried rice with pickled vegetables, my sisters and I only had boiled potatoes saved from the night before.
Potato seasons continued and passed, and the endless breakfasts of boiled potatoes continued, and my siblings and I gradually grew up. What my parents were happiest about was that all their children were educated and successful with bright futures ahead. The tireless efforts of my parents and siblings, along with a little luck from the times, made my family no longer as poor as it was a few decades ago.
Every time I return to my small house in the suburbs, seeing the changing life and the better economic situation of most families in my hometown, I feel happy and excited. However, mixed with that joy is a bit of sadness because the image of my mother, a person who spent her whole life working hard for her husband and taking care of her children, is no longer there because she returned to her ancestors a few years ago due to a serious illness. Thinking of my mother, two streams of tears keep flowing, from the bottom of my heart I always silently call out: Mom!/.
Nguyen Thuy Uyen
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