Only seeing you today brings up a rush of emotions.
In those summer days, after dinner, we would often sit together like this in the courtyard, chatting idly.
The difference is, back then, my parents were still here.
I remember the summer nights were always swarming with mosquitoes, and you'd use a fan to help me shoo them away."
Walter Hansen nodded with a smile.
"Yeah, it feels like something from the last century.
Do you think we can ever reclaim those good old days?"
Faye Townsend's expression fell a few shades.
"Some pasts can only be buried deep in memory.
Because they're gone, we can never go back."
Her eyes moistened as she looked at Walter Hansen: "Sometimes, I dream of my parents.
If they were still alive, what would I be like now?
Over the years, I've gone through many things I never would have imagined.
There's been happiness, and there's been pain.
It seems that only after they left did I start to experience the 'smoke and fire' of the mortal world.
