Dusk When All the Locust Flowers Have Fallen
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Thirty-two-year-old Lin Shen received an email signed "Youth" in the early morning. The email wrote about the afternoon when he skipped class and sat on the fence when he was seventeen, with locust flowers covering his white shirt-an afternoon that even he had almost forgotten. Since then, letters have arrived intermittently: the watermelon seeds under grandma's cattail fan, the boy looking up in the snow, the red ears in his graduation photo. Each letter cuts a precise cross-section of his memory, and the sender remains a mystery. It wasn't until he pulled out his high school graduation photos that he found a girl with lowered eyes in the corner of the last row - Song Zhiyi. The girl who sat by the window of the science class and never attracted attention. The girl who was holding a letter behind the locust tree but didn't hand it out in the end. After fourteen years, the two used emails to catch up on each other's missed youth. The last letter was attached with a photo on light pink paper, and the inscription was: "Song Zhiyi, written in the dusk when the locust flowers have fallen." Some farewells do not have to be completed at dusk. Some boats are tied to the heart, ferrying people and themselves.
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