Xiuzhu's Name

Xiuzhu always said that her biggest regret in her life was that she never went to school and didn't know how to write her name. She said that she had lived for more than eighty years and had been her mother's child, her brother's sister, her husband's wife, the mother of her children, the grandmother of her grandchildren, and even a great-grandmother, but she had never understood what it meant to be herself.