My eyes filled with tears as I looked at my parents'smiling faces. I knew I had made them happy.In spite of all the dangers and hardships theyhad faced, Mum and Dad always told meto have hope, and to believe that everythingwould turn out okay in the end. And they were right.It did
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You know, Anh, I'm just a little bit sad now, but I'll be okay. You must always have hope that things will be okay. Remember when we were on the boat and that pirate threw us a bottle of water? Even when things seem really terrible, something good can come of it. I nodded my head, but I was doubtful. Mum said, We are so lucky to be alive and living in this beautiful country. There are many people much worse off than us.
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Mum and Dad started their own sewing business so they could make more money and buy us all the things we needed for school. They bought three brand-new sewing machines. But then one morning Mum raced into the house yelling, Where are the machines? Who moved the sewing machines?' The sewing machines were kept in a shed in our back yard. During the night someone had stolen them.