A familiar stranger
----------Dedicated to all the mothers whose children couldn't accompany to celebrate their festival

Each one has a familiar strange mother at the back.
In your childhood, she was so familiar to you. You knew she liked biting the bone and the head of fish. You knew she liked dragging your sleeves when you were crossing the road. You knew she liked reminding you greeting others when you met with any acquaintance. You knew she liked checking your bedroom all too often and urged you to clean and put all the necessities in order. What's worse, she knew you incredibly more than you know her. She knew how often you should call the family and relatives when you studied in boarding school. She knew how much you really spent on the proper hobbies. It seems that she is the best detective in the world if she want to know a person, and first of all, that must be you---her own child.

When you are growing up, you find she become more and more strange. She prefers to soup rather than the bone and the head of fish since you passed the dental transitional period and began to pick the fish thorn with ease. She begins to pull back your sleeves when you are crossing the road. She tends to clean up your bedroom for your excuse of mountain-high homework or always-heavy-urgent jobs. She advises you not to make the long-distance call to the family frequently in case she could phone you initiatively. What's worse, you don't want to be a kind of person like her. You don't want to bargain on the market only for a couple of Yuan and each coin she cut down seemingly like a big deal. You don't want to be so talkative as the greeting and tell many acquaintances even the trifle about the daily life. You don't want to discuss current issues for In a word, you feel she was outdated, or even worse; there is little communication between you and her though partly for her fear the interruption of your work and the high fee of the long-distance call.

Someday, you received her parcel with a note saying that since the summer was coming, a mosquito net maybe important to you at that time. It suddenly occurred to you that the last time in the phone you mentioned the troublesome mosquito in the night accidentally. Looking up the calendar, you remembered her birthday was also near. Naturally, you dialed the familiar number.

"Oh, my child, that day isn't my true birthday for the date is only according to the lunar calendar of the year." her voice was exciting and regretful. It was the first time you remembered to celebrate her birthday by phone even though you should have avoided such mistake long before.

Suddenly, you make up your mind to know this familiar stranger called mother. Though at times she may be not as intelligent and informative as you, she may be not as fashionable and open minded as you, she will be most loyal one who listens to your woes, your braggings, your frustrations and so on with nothing in return.let us put aside enough time to show our appreciation to her. Love this familiar stranger more than you love yourself for she treats you the most intimate one in the world.
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