The way home in '59

Eugenia 2022-03-14 14:12:23

My grandfather is from Lingling, Hunan.

In the 1940s, my grandfather went north to fight against Japan, and moved to Northeast, North China and other places.

In 1946, grandpa and grandma got married somewhere in the north.

In 1947, my aunt was born in Shenyang. Then it was transferred to Zhangjiakou, Hebei and other places.

In 1949, when the country was liberated, grandpa and grandma returned to their parents' home to farm. Later, my uncle and sister-in-law were born.

In 1955, my father was born.

In 1958, my grandfather brought his aunt and his father back to Hunan Province, and then died of starvation in Hunan.

Since then, my aunt and father have been begging for food and lost contact with my grandmother.

...

Since 2014, I have published a number of family tracing posts on the Internet. I have also commissioned friends from all walks of life to inquire about news, contacted the media for help, and traveled to Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin and other places to find clues many times. Incomplete information, always fruitless.

After the Spring Festival in 2017, I received a call from Shandong. The other party claimed to have seen information on the Internet...

On the Lantern Festival in 2017, my grandma, my aunt, my little aunt, my father and other relatives reunited in Dezhou, Shandong. From 1958 to 2017, my grandma and children met for the first time after 59 years of separation.

(My uncle died at a young age)

My grandma is now in her 90s and just has a hard hearing.

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Lion quotes

  • Saroo Brierley: I'm sorry you couldn't have your own kids.

    Sue Brierley: What are you saying?

    Saroo Brierley: We... we... weren't blank pages, were we? Like your own would have been. You weren't just adopting us but our past as well. I feel like we're killing you.

    Sue Brierley: I could have had kids.

    Saroo Brierley: What?

    Sue Brierley: We chose not to have kids. We wanted the two of you. That's what we wanted. We wanted the two of you in our lives.That's what we chose.

    [pause]

    Sue Brierley: That's one of the reasons I fell in love with your dad.

    [pause]

    Sue Brierley: Because we both felt as if... the world has enough people in it. Have a child, couldn't guarantee it will make anything better. But to take a child that's suffering like you boys were. Give you a chance in the world. That's something.

  • Saroo Brierley: Do you have any idea what it's like knowing my real brother and mother spent every day of their lives looking for me? Huh? How every day my real brother screams my name? Can you imagine the pain they must be in not knowing where I am?