When it was minus 26 degrees Celsius, the whole world was white, and there was a layer of hoarfrost on the grass, and the ground was covered with hoarfrost. The trees are all white branches, everything is white, and even the air is solidified!

When I want to practice, I can only wear cloth tennis shoes with three tears in the heel, and blood stains from the socks to the outside of the shoes. I had no choice but to write a letter to my mother, who had remarried to another country, asking for a pair of cotton shoes. I went to the hospital again and bought chilblain cream.

When I arrived in Lixia, my mother's cotton shoes came, and I tried them, and they were small. I knew I was growing up! I silently tucked my cotton shoes under the bed as a permanent memorial. From then on, I knew that I would never ask my mother for anything, and that my life and work would all be solved by myself!

In 1975, Lixia, I said goodbye to my childhood. I said goodbye to my twelve-year-old. That year, my salary was 18 yuan and my food stamps were 38 pounds.

I am self-reliant and completely independent.

Since that day, I've really grown!

15 late cotto

-padded shoes

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ly wea

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om socks to dye shoes. I had

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of cotto

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.

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t of summe

, mothe

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tly put cotto

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the bed, do a pe

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, I k

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to my mothe

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gs, my life, wo

k, all will solve!

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1975, the begi

i

g of summe

, I bid fa

ewell to my childhood. I said goodbye to my twelve yea

s old. I'm self-

elia

t, totally i

depe

de

t.

F

om that day o

, I

eally g

ew up!