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Dumpling Sister's Thoughts
3.24.2008 Love Letter (Chinese Version)
Love letter is ever lasting and enduring, and is fullness of
sweetness on both ends.
It is the utter sincere representation of the moment, in
return it seeks for the moving feeling from the receiver.
*******
Several weeks ago, I went alone to watch the movie “PS: I
Love You.” I was going to ask my brother to come, but he
refused. Good, I would enjoy more by myself.
The movie started with the main female character, Holly,
furiously walking home, with her husband, Gerry, following
her. He kept apologizing to her, though he had no clue what
he did wrong. He tried to avoid a what could turn into a
bitter argument between the two. So he could only apologize.
It was the very bickering that takes place between couples
everywhere. The reason for the fight was that he said that
she didn’t want to have children, but her concern was that
they didn’t have enough saved up for it. The money issue and
the story started; however, before they could age together,
he passed away.
He left Holly alone in the apartment and all the time in the
world without him. She didn’t know how to move on.
She stayed home and tried to remember him, his scent from
clothes, his jokes, she tried to preserve his existence, in
time and in space. She regretted having arguments with him
and stuck in his memories; she couldn’t move on with his
passing. But who could?
Such a dear person, such a person who cares for her the
dearest?
Several weeks had passed and one day, she received a written
letter from him on her birthday, encouraging her to move on
with her life and have fun. She would keep getting letters
from him asking her to do things she never did before.
This was not a storyline like “Ghost”, rather, Gerry wrote
the letters during his final days, with the ways he came up
to help her recover. It started with a simple talk between
the two, he asked her what she would do if he passed away.
He thought of ways to bring her back to life. He said he was
a chapter to her life, while she was his life. At the end of
every letter, he would put “PS: I Love You.” To remind her
his love for her, but also, it was the pure representation
of his feeling. I can imagine how he would have the silly
smile on his face when he wrote those letters.
Right, what is love? That it makes people make promises to
each other to death do them apart?
So it turns out, loving her means to have her keep her
faith, let her have the ability to walk on her own proudly.
So despite leaving, still wishes her to be able to enjoy the
surroundings, can be at peace with herself.
Good thing that I went alone to watch the movie, since my
eyes were full of tears.
*******
Sending out love in the letters, with dearest feelings
poured, and one letter after one letter, only afraid of
leaving out words.
Receiving love from the letters, in response with feelings
echoing from the heart, one letter after one letter, not
afraid if any paragraphs are not included.
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