I would like to talk about an old lady who was an old acquaintance of my father. So she lived about 3 km away from my house with her sister’family. And she had been keeping an old local tradition which called self commg. Uh, this tradition involves women styling their hair as like the married women, which, um, was to demonstrate their determination to remain single for the rest of their life. Because in the old time the husbands abus the, uh, wives. So, um, she told me that she immigrated to Singapore and had been working there for over a decade and managed to save enough money to send back home to support her siblings and their families. And she also helped my family when we are, uh, needed. And that’s why I felt very indebted and grateful to her. I think, uh, she was, uh, a very lovely old lady, uh, because she didn’t have any off spring. So I had been treating her like my grandmother, like a grandmother figure y. So I really wish she could, uh, rest in peace.
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I'd like to talk about an elderly woman who was a close friend of my father. She lived about 3 kilometers away from my house with her sister's family. She had been keeping alive an old local tradition called 'self-combing.' This tradition involves women styling their hair in a specific way, similar to married women, to demonstrate their commitment to remaining single for life. This tradition stemmed from a time when husbands often mistreated their wives. She told me that she immigrated to Singapore and worked there for over a decade, saving enough money to send back home to support her siblings and their families. She also helped my family whenever we needed it. I feel deeply indebted and grateful to her. I think she was a truly lovely woman. She never had children, so I treated her like my own grandmother, a grandmother figure. I truly wish she could rest in peace.
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