“When Lien wants to write to her father for his birthday on 10 December, Auntie has to tell he
“When Lien wants to write to her father for his birthday on 10 December, Auntie has to tell her that there is no address to write to, that their papers have been displaced. That afternoon it is quiet in the kitchen, and Lien sits herself down in a corner. On her finger she has two little rings that were a gift from her parents, one silver and one gold. She takes them off and starts to roll them up and down along the floorboards, from one hand to the other and back. First one and then the second slips down through a gap by the wall into the darkness. Lien does not remember thinking about her parents at all for a long time after that.”From The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart Van Es -- source link
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