jasonlulu_2000
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 2, 2012
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- China
- Current Location
- China
The cancer of alcoholism ate away at the man and he lost his family. This was not something he meant to do or wanted to do, it just was. When you are older, my son, you will learn about how complicated life becomes, how we can lose our way and how people get hurt inside and out. By the time his son had grown up, the man lived away from the family, on his own in a one-roomed flat, living and dying for the bottle.
He died on the fifth of January, one day before the anniversary of his son's birth. But his son was too far away to hear his last words, his final breath, and all the things they might have wished to say to one another were left unspoken.
Q1: What does "it just was" mean?
Q2: Does "the anniversary of birth" equal "birthday" or exactly "one-year-old birthday"?
Thanks!
Jason
He died on the fifth of January, one day before the anniversary of his son's birth. But his son was too far away to hear his last words, his final breath, and all the things they might have wished to say to one another were left unspoken.
Q1: What does "it just was" mean?
Q2: Does "the anniversary of birth" equal "birthday" or exactly "one-year-old birthday"?
Thanks!
Jason