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This stories deal with travel away from home- not a distant travel, but one that makes significant a difference in a woman’s life. The story begins as she was a very young girl, not poor but not filthy rich either. As she ages, she comes across a man and becomes his wife, she in turn has become a married woman.
Married life seemed to bring great possibilities in her life, much more than anything else could. She married and had a son. As her life progresses and her husband and son die, she finds herself vulnerable to the world; she had grown dependent on them.
Ah-long, now a widow to a prosperous merchant was reduced to poverty and forced to resort to law and charity to survive. Ah-Long belonged to a women’s club now, her husband and son were no more. She found herself gambling more than she had, which caused her fortune to decline. The only thing she had was the assurance that her funeral costs would be covered by the club she belonged to.
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You might be thinking to yourself, damn that’s short!
And I say yes it it. It was purposefully kept short.
Ah-Long struggle was tragic but it was something that still happens today.
I did not want to blur the message by adding all the elaborate details of what she wore on what day and how her house was 3 blocks from god knows were. That crap is irrelevant in my eyes.
This is what happened to her. This was her struggle.