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This is the opening line of Part Two, which consists of the manuscript LuLing prepares for Ruth to tell her daughter about her life in China. In the manuscript, LuLing flashes back to her childhood growing up in the village of Immortal Heart and provides details about her mother, Precious Auntie’s, youth.
This passage is important because it outlines the main conflicts LuLing grapples with as she struggles with the onset of dementia: to commit the details of her history to writing so that she may remember them herself and pass them down to her daughter, Ruth. She wants to…