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Your Parent's First Language Is Cantonese
A cantone speaker, yes, a cantone speaker. Your parent's first language is cantony's. In the book you say fairly often it's not a language you're totally comfortable in. It'some thing that you're always trying to get better at. There's this beautiful passage in the book where you talk about your mother's name, florence. And i was hoping if you have the book there, you might read the passage. Ye, my theory is that she chose florence because she'd admired florence nightingale. She may have been something about nightingale being famous nurse, a caretaker who was also known for her contributions to mathematics
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