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Mother picked up a stack of old newspapers from beside the stove. Carefully, she checked every page before laying it around a stool, setting two sheets with Chairman Mao's pictures on the counter. Months earlier, a nurse had been sent to prison as an anti-Maoist just because she lit her stove with a newspaper page with Mao's photo on it.
I noticed a cloth rice sack in the corner next to some herbal medicine bottles, and folded clothes. "Why are you packing, Mom?"