This is a completed composition by my peer. He just saw the comments on the composition I submitted. and enjoined me to post this one here.

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Write an article in memory of one of your late family members.


Miss My Grandfather
2007-8-3


I often miss my grandfather, thinking of his smilings, thinking of his tall and thin figure, thinking of his eyes looking to the far places and thinking of his gaze at us full of expectations and love.

He was a man who had experienced many tribulations in the neoteric age of this country. He died before he could enjoy the happiness he worked hard for the whole life.

He was happy when he knew that I excelled in school. He expected this way I would have a better life and wouldn't suffer the pain he had suffered. He was confined to bed in his final years. No dutiful sons before a long-illed old man. He invited me to his bed and gave me the plums, which he begrudged to eat but saved for his grandchildren. In the beginning, I came to see him. But by and by, thinking that the plums are dirty and I had no fun with him, I just turned my back on him and ran away, leaving him cursing behind, but unable to vent his anger because he couldn't get up from the bed. He once was a very stern patriarch, and under such situation, he would have given all a severe punishment.

I seldom went to see him later for my parents later didn't endorse so. They thought I'was wasting my time there.

I alwasy think I hurt my grandfather very much in his last days, especially when he thought of me as his pride. I was young that time and didn't realize that I would never have any more oppotunities to bring him happiness and show my respect for him, for soon he died.

Last edited by callithump; 08/03/07 03:00 PM.
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