We finally left the village where my grandmother had lived, and drove to another village in Taishan where my sister and mom lived before moving to Canada. There we went back to our first home. It was slightly bigger than the house in my grandmother’s village, but was equally dark and gloomy. No one had lived there in a while. I recall my sister Emily telling me stories about when she was young, about all the things they did when they were kids living in that home. They remembered it being so big and when I went there it was so small, no more than 200 square feet. My three sisters, my mom, and her mom all lived there, eating and playing and living and working in that one little cramped area. We also moved our roast pigs, burned our incense, and lit firecrackers. When we left that village, people there were kinder and my dad again went around handing out candy.
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