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Border Convenience Store—the Light Is Here
A letter thirty years late was delivered to the convenience store at the end of the Horgos National Highway on a snowy night. The envelope says "Received by Lin Guozhong" - that is my grandfather's name. He has been gone for twenty years. There was only one sentence in the letter: In the winter of 1973, someone made an appointment to see him. That person didn't come. So "I" decided to look for it. From Guozigou in Yili to the Irtysh River in Altay, from the jade market in Nanyang, Henan to the
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Border Convenience Store
At Horgos Port, a convenience store that never turns off the lights. The father, a retired border guard, had been guarding the border for forty years. He used stones, pigeons and a bowl of naan porridge to boil the snow and wind on the border. A girl from southern Xinjiang, a customer from Kyrgyzstan, a car repairman's wooden frame, grandpa's sixty-four-year account book—everyone who passed by left a stone behind. When you have enough stones, you can build a room with the lights on and the doors
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