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Just a few days after the fall semester started, Jiang Shuichang, associate professor of the Chinese Department, received a call from the school's Human Resources Office. Keep him in a circle for a few seconds. A strange female voice reminded him that his birthday was September 10th. Then he congratulated him on his honorable retirement with some clichés and asked him to go through the formalities as soon as possible. Teacher Jiang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, time is like water, time flies so fast! I went to the Human Resources Office on time on September 10th, not wanting to give the impression that I was delaying. What surprised him was that he saw his "original file" in the Human Resources Department. The vanishing years of youth suddenly hit his heart like a tide. Those pages have become yellowed and brittle after more than forty years. As if meeting his first love, he gently rubbed the page, his eyes filled with excitement.