Lessons from my parents


By GAN XIAO TIAN19

The writers parents met when they were just six and will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in October.

To maintain a relationship is to practise tolerance and acceptance

OUR neighbours used to joke that when mother was cooking in the kitchen, our father would run to the back of our house just to steal a glance at her, my grandfather would say whenever my siblings and I asked him about my parents’ courtship.

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