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[Salinan]Disalin!
I’ll never forget May 3, 1990, the day Tien-Tien come into our lives. Ahong, the wife of my youngest brother Ajiang, gave birth after a very difficult labour of five hours. We already had a name for the baby before she was born. She would be called Tien-Tien which meant ‘sweetness’. As we waited at the hospital, our joy quickly turned to grief when the attending physician announced that he could detect no signs of life in Tien-Tien. There was no breathing, no heartbeat, so he finally declared the baby dead. Ajiang decided to lay the body next to the Taizi River. To outsiders, this might be strange; to us, a Chinese family with almost no money or resources, the prospect of encouraging the baby’s spirit slip away to abetter world in a beautiful setting made a great deal of sense. We planned to return later to bury Tien-Tien’s remains and pay honor to her. Ajiang wrapped his child in a red floral quilt and set off the river. He gently laid his baby in patch of grass along the bank of the river. A week later, while I was walking home from work, I overheard several women talking about one of her friends. They said their friend heard a baby crying and the sounds come from a patch of grass along the river bank. They further explained that the baby had been placed in a local orphanage.Something inside me said it must have been Tien-Tien. Without waiting any longer, I ran to the orphanage. In the room I saw Tien-Tien in a crib covered in dirt but very much alive.
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