China - the very word floods me with mystery and longing. It is a far-off world that held my loved ones in her embrace and speaks to me of fathers and forgotten memories.

- My life has changed since you went away
And I need to know if I'm doing OK -

from 'Daddy can you see me?' by Anita Cochran

Opdracht

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This book is dedicated to

the three parents of the eight Fisher siblings --

Harry Gladstone Fisher 1895-1960
Victoria Grace Fisher, nee Bolton 1901-1941
Elsie May Fisher, nee Thompson 1912-1990

Dad - this is for you, in loving memory.
For my five children - words can never express my love for you all.
Also for my sisters Ivy Paar, nee Fisher 1933-1986, who lived most of her adult life in Brittany, France,
and Dorothy Fisher 1932-1933, who lived her short life in Lanping, China.

Eerste woorden

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"We'll have three weeks from work over Christmas and the New Year, so how about coming over then?"

Citaten

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Do you have a word or even a phrase from your childhood that elicits a tingle in your spine, or a fluttering in your midriff?

I show her the aging photo of a middle-aged man in a dishevelled suit standing outside a doorway, and as I point to him, with a quiver of emotion in my voice, I say the only word that she might understand.
'Harry?'
She smiles.
Her finger, wrinkled and worn with age, points up the lane.

I needed to make this trip to Lanping, the town he had devoted his best years to, to tell him how sorry I was . . . When he had died shortly after, I had felt ashamed, but it was too late to make amends. None of us know when the last sight, touch, and word will be.

Laatste woorden

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