 | | 2019-08-27 10:47
From blog Extra Petite
Part II // The Wedding They Never Had
Continued from Part I // Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve asked my Grampy to tell me stories about when he was younger. Some of them make me sad, some make me appreciative. But one in particular that stuck with me was when I asked about his and my grandmother’s wedding day.
My grandparents got married in 1959, at the start of the great Chinese famine. They’d been assigned as laborers to work in an impoverished rural village, thousands of miles away from their friends and family. On their big day there were no rings, no cake, no fancy clothes. They simply filled out some paperwork, splurged on a few pieces of “celebratory” candy to share with the...
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