Sim Chi Yin—VII Photo
“I am thinking of remarrying because I have no other choice. My elderly father-in-law, already 79, has been in poorer and poorer health. I can’t manage looking after him myself. I am also not in good health myself, and we need to have an income-earner. My son is still in school and is not married yet; we’ll need to prepare a house for him so that he can get a wife. I have no other choice…
“If I was 50, I wouldn’t look for a new husband. I would just look after Jinbo’s children… But I’m not 50…
“It’s not that I will forget him soon…. We had been married for 20 years… how can I possibly forget him?”
—Mi Shixiu
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“I am thinking of remarrying because I have no other choice. My elderly father-in-law, already 79, has been in poorer and poorer health. I can’t manage looking after him myself. I am also not in good health myself, and we need to have an income-earner. My son is still in school and is not married yet; we’ll need to prepare a house for him so that he can get a wife. I have no other choice…
“If I was 50, I wouldn’t look for a new husband. I would just look after Jinbo’s children… But I’m not 50…
“It’s not that I will forget him soon…. We had been married for 20 years… how can I possibly forget him?”
—Mi Shixiu