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Jennifer’s Photo Stories (22) 曾錚的圖片故事(22)-A New Beginning at 30 三十歲的新生命
Since I decided to take a photo of myself at each birthday when I was 16, for 15 years, I had been sticking to this “tradition” very strictly and faithfully. And these two photos were taken at my 30th birthday.
自從16歲那年決定以後每個生日都要照紀念照以後,我一直將此「傳統」堅持得很好,年年不落地照相,這兩張是我30歲的生日照。
Between my 16th and 30th birthday, a lot of important things happened to me: getting into Peking University, one of the best universities in China; becoming a graduate student of the same university without having to sit the entrance examinations due to my extremely outstanding performance in undergraduate years; graduating with a Master of Science Degree; becoming a policy researcher and consultant at the prestigious and highest level government policy research and consultancy body: the Development Research Centre of the State Council of China; getting married and then giving birth to a lovely daughter; encountering medical negligence during childbirth and having my health totally ruined…Actually, when I took these two photos, I was still in long-term sickness leave, and had not been able to work or look after my…