A stranger at Kitsilano Beach, 1976

地点与时间

• Kitsilano Beach · Vancouver · Canada ~1976 a patch of sand near the lifeguard chair

当年的 TA

A woman of about thirty with curly red hair and a straw hat, who sat on the sand next to me and shared her lunch. She spoke slowly and used her hands, and laughed kindly whenever either of us got a word wrong.

当年的我

The new arrival in a thick wool cardigan on a hot day, holding a baby and one English phrasebook.

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道谢 · 只想把话带到

代寻

Written by her granddaughter

We had landed three weeks earlier and I knew almost nobody. At the beach, a stranger sat beside me, shared a sandwich and spent the whole afternoon teaching me the names of things: sand, wave, bucket, sun. When I cried because I could not thank her properly, she held the baby so I could wipe my eyes. I never learned her name. I am eighty-two now and would like to say thank you in my own English.

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