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Ethel stood at the window, shaking the dust off the rag. Outside the window, a young man on a bicycle passed by by chance, thinking he was greeting him, so he stopped the car playfully and waved. The maid blushed and quietly hid behind the curtain.
Since then, I have always waited at that point and that window, occasionally disappointed, but mostly happy. Day by day, he suddenly knocked on the door with flowers in hand, cleared his throat, and talked about introducing himself.
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"You know what, I'm getting married!"
"So coincidentally, so am I!"
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Together with your lover, decorate an empty house little by little into the warmest place in the world. This is actually the most extraordinary big plan in most of us who are ordinary.
At that time, they, love, family and house, nourished each other. Today we, love and family and house, torture each other.
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His father, Ernest, was born in a low-level worker. He was skilled and capable. He hummed mostly vulgar folk songs popular among miners. His mother, Ethel, had a good education and worked as a maid in an upper-class family. Live as petty bourgeoisie.
They also quarrel and occasionally do not understand each other, but all conflicts can always be resolved quickly. He always took her into his arms, softly saying "I know, I know." over and over again.
I'm here, I understand you.
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Planted seeds will always sprout, and spring new shoots will certainly thrive. Even if many things are guessed early in the morning, at the end of the day, if you recite "it's already covered up" a few times in silence, you will eventually cry.
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In fact, it is just a very bland and restrained, running account-like retelling of the decades from the acquaintance of the parents to the death one after another. The reason for the war and the death is because all this was quietly placed there. The mighty times Dang, our small and ordinary things go hand in hand.
It is sometimes difficult to make the audience "touched" and "touched", and requires excellent screenwriters, directors, and actors to work hard together; sometimes it is actually very simple.
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The entire universe is still in a stretch of tens of billions of years of expansion. We are fortunate to meet, and to be with us for a hundred years. Looking at it from the distant stars, it is actually only an instant.
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