I’ve loved and I’ve suffered, I’ve used these two hands to do hard labor, I’ve planted the five crops, I’ve planted trees, I’ve repaired roads . . . Don’t these things also create a meaningful life? To use a word you young people like, it’s called happiness. Happiness! You young people don’t realize, but when I pick the fruit from my trees and give it to the children, my heart is so . . . happy! How much of my fruit did you eat when you were little? You’re too young to understand, but when I plant a tree, I think about how when I die, later generations will pick fruit from that tree, and
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