Day 2

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When Adeline started school in Shanghai, she was very nervous because she was wondering who she would meet, how the school would be like, would everyone be nice, will many people be her friend? That was the day that she met some of the nicest people in the world, compared to her siblings and Niang. After a few weeks of her new school, she became friends with a very nice, sporty and friendly girl named Wu Chun Mei. She felt changed through a short-term concept because she finally had a proper friend. She was changed both emotionally and psychologically. Only I knew about Adeline’s new friend because Adeline thought Niang would punish her for having a friend.

Shanghai in 1945

One day, the Huang family brought home a cardboard box with 7 little ducklings in it. All the 7 kids got to choose their duckling, but as usual, Adeline got to pick last. She got the scrawniest little duckling out of everyone’s. She named her duck PLT, which was a short form for Precious Little Treasure. Adeline was psychologically changed because that day, she got her best friend in the whole world. Yes it may have only been a duck to everyone, but to her, PLT was like the president of her world. She would do anything for PLT.
I feel happy for Adeline. Her getting a duckling will show her how to take care of a real living thing. She will learn how to treat a living thing properly, unlike her Niang.

Adeline and her siblings in 1946.
Adeline was 8 years old then.

   

We never took a photo of the ducklings
 that the children had but this is what
PLT looked like after 2 weeks from when the
 kids got their ducklings.