Staples February 5, 2008 On July 4, 2005, my first Independence Day, I was in San Francisco with my grandparents to visit my cousins. We were flying home to Toronto in a few days. I had spent the day volunteering at the Marin County Fair, serving Chinese food to hungry fairgoers for a [...]
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March 6, 2009
公公 sat on the bench in the foyer, trying to get his shoes on. I took off my mittens, put them in my pocket and bent down to help him. I took the shoe out of his fumbling fingers and brought it to his foot. I helped him push his foot in and then stood up to help him up. We walked out of my uncle’s house to our car. I opened the back door and helped him in, making sure he had his seatbelt on and then closed the door. Then I went back in the house to get 婆婆 and do the same thing over again.