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One cold evening in winter, I asked my dear mother, “Mum, what were you like when you were at my age?” She looked up, 1at my question.
After a long time, she answered, “Polly, why did you ask me that? Well, you see, I was not so lucky as you. In our times, there was only one 2for girls－being a hard-working woman. To tell you the truth, I 3 my mother, your grandmother, when I was growing up. I did so much for her, but not once did she ever said, 'thank you'.”
And then, Mother went on, “I had always wanted to hear a word of 4 from her, but I got only the family rules and wishes I could never manage. During those years, she 5 me to get up at six every morning and cook breakfast. She often 6 me with other girls, who were as 7 as me, and found my mistakes.”
“Nothing was ever 8 enough for my mother,” continued my mother, “but now I know she did 9 me, even if she never said so. Polly, like your grandmother, I love all my children, and you are everything to me. I have been very strict and hard on you, but I am raising you in the only 10 I knew.”
