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“Other kids get white rice, but the food you give us makes it look like we're living a subsistence life.” “I buy white rice for the New Year's Festival,” I said, stung. Then, defensively, “I often put barley in your lunch –” “Which is even more embarrassing, because that means we're really poor.” “What a lucky child you are to say that. You don't know what poor means –” — Lisa See
Other kids get white rice, but the food you give us makes it look like we're living a subsistence life.”
“I buy white rice for the New Year's Festival,” I said, stung. Then, defensively, “I often put barley in your lunch –”
“Which is even more embarrassing, because that means we're really poor.”
“What a lucky child you are to say that. You don't know what poor means –