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“Life is fragile; cherish the people around you.”
I will share my grandmother’s childhood story, cargo ship after floating on the sea for four days.
which happened in the 1960s. From this story, I learnt that my grandmother
almost lost her father in this incident, so we must
My great-grandfather was a fisherman and always treasure and cherish our loved ones.
the sole breadwinner of his family. When my
grandmother was five years old, her father, who is
my great-grandfather, fell into the sea after his Teoh Shan Xi
fishing boat was hit by a ship. He wanted to stay Primary 2.3
alive and kept thinking of his 14 family members.
Luckily, my great-grandfather was rescued by a
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