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A time we cannot return to.

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We used to roam between neighbourhoods.

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Our neighbourhood was about this big.

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We went to the same primary school,

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and we all lived nearby.

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So we would roam quite far when we went out to play.

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We would visit other neighbourhoods just to play in the lifts.

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There was a well, too. A very deep well.

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We dropped stones in and listened for the sound,

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to work out how deep it was.

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It felt as though something mysterious was down there.

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Me too. Like a tunnel underground.

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I went back recently and visited places from my childhood.

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Let me show you.

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This is the place in my earliest memory.

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It used to be a square.

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My grandad used to bring me here to buy things.

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That is my earliest memory.

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Your earliest memory.

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This was a little shop.

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I used to hang out there as a kid.

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Nobody at home kept tabs on me.

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The old lady who ran it was so kind to me.

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I lived here in primary school. Seven or eight years later,

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I used to skip classes in high school.

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One day I skipped class and went back to see her.

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I bought a few things.

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I said, “Do you remember me?”

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She thought about it, but could not place me.

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Then suddenly: “You are Zhuangzhuang!”

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Wow.

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She recognised me. I was so moved.

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She would not take my money, either.

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I should have paid first.

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What struck me was walking in: it was just as it had been.

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Even she looked just the same as seven or eight years before.

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It was almost too much for me.

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After that, I was afraid to go and see her.

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I thought she would give me things again, so I stayed away.

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You could bring her something first.

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That is true.

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In high school, I would skip class and watch the sunset here.

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Beautiful.

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I watched the sunset here every day.

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Beautiful.

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But by making a film, you can go back once more.

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You cannot live back then forever,

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or keep looking back forever.

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We have lovely friends here now, too. People to play with.