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A New Beginning
It was a hot summer day in late June. I had just finished my last exam of the year and eager to start my summer holidays. I ran out of the gate separating the school and the outside world into lao-ye’s (mom’s dad) open arms. It had been a strange year, and it wasn’t going to get any better.
My family lived in a spacious two-bedroom apartment in a Tianjin suburb and I attended one of the most prominent elementary school at that time. After attending only the first half of grade two at Dr. Sun Zhongshan Elementary School, my parents shipped me to a military boarding school across town. I was stunned and confused as I was quite reluctant to leave the school I loved so dearly: honour roll student, class president, revered by fellow classmates and loved by teachers. Good grades get you a long way in a standardized education system. But all this will be ripped away from me as I enter my new school.
I remember that first day of February. My father......

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