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After more than a year the great day had nally arrived: my rst day of junior high school! It was a warm September morning. Four hundred brand-new students made the auditorium of Xin-zha Junior High School even stuver. Some of us had not seen each other for more than a year, and everyone was excitedly picking old classmates out of the sea of new faces. The new school chairman, who had replaced the old principal, was giving us a welcome speech, but we had too much to catch up with among ourselves to pay him much attention.
An Yi and I leaned forward to hear the boy with protruding ears in the row in front of us. "… In my brother's factory the ghting was really serious. Two factions were ghting to lead the revolution in the factory. They both got guns from the army. People were killed with machine guns. My brother saw it with his own eyes…" Someone pulled my braid, and I turned around. Deng Yi-yi, no longer dressed like a pauper, was smiling at us.