Thank you, Mr. Bill · Flushing library

地点与时间

• Flushing Main Street Library · New York · United States 2004–2005 Tuesday evenings, library basement

当年的 TA

Mr. Bill · 当时大约 45 岁

The volunteer who ran the Tuesday evening English class in the library basement. Tall, stooped, with a soft Midwestern voice, a canvas bag of picture books, and a habit of writing every new word on the board twice.

当年的我

The quiet woman at the back who copied every word into a small green notebook and never raised her hand.

我为什么写这封信

道谢 · 只想把话带到

I arrived with a suitcase, a degree nobody here recognised, and about forty words of English. On Tuesdays you taught us from children's picture books and never once made us feel like children. When I finally read a whole page aloud, my voice shaking, you waited without helping and then simply said, Well, that's one page. Next week, two. I manage a small office in Queens now, and I still read picture books on Sundays.

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这封信写的，会不会就是你？ 这是我