River Town

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Post last modified:August 26, 2019

I grew up in an alluvial land, surrounded my little town is the branches of the nine-dragons river. The most significant place to find all kind of accessories and foods is the primary market for about 10 minutes from my house. Behind of the market is the river and along with the other side of this river is resident houses. This river was a place I put all my imagination from the stories of my dad. He used to teach me the lesson of his poor town when the war still happening. He said, at that time when there are poverty and starvation, the river is the central market place where boaters traded their commodities. My grandma was so poor and struggled to grow three kids, the older kids like my big aunt and my dad had to work since they were young to raise my little aunt and support my grandma. There are the times that they could not find any foods; my dad had to dive into the central river to seek foods. In his words, he said, if he could find some sweet-potatoes in that day, he knew the family would survive.

I had imagined how hard life would have been in that time because the only thing I could see it is my imagination. While I am an only child at home, my life must have been better than people who lived in the country-rebuild time . My childhood in my memories are alone moments with my imagined friends; I created stories, I played piano on the arm of my dad’s armchair… In our old house, beside the house was a small dam, if it were heavy rain, our house would be lopped in the water. I remember my mom placed me on our wooden bed avoiding me from play in the in-house-water-pool, I jumped out of bed and pretended swimming in a river…

The floated market became a building market. We moved from our old house to my grandma’s old house. The grandma’s house dismantled to build a new home. My little town developed to a small city. I stopped imagine things instead have started to analyze things. I am now living in another side of the world. My dad and mom are still living in the alluvial land, surrounded their little city is the branches of the nine-dragons river…

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