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SM2 - 2nd RuRR nner Up - Chan Eugene (5S Zhong)

“Poof!”
“I can grant you one giftff , one giftff only! A giftff other than riches, think of
anything you want! Ha ha ha!”, the magician jeered.

“I would like to have a…”, just as I was about to fiff nish,

“Wait!” the magician stopped me right there. “The catch is, the giftff of yours
will cost the rest of your lifeff .”

I was done when he let those words out.
“You cannot choose nothing!”

All of a sudden, my mind went blank and I was spiralling into nothing. Then,
memories started to flff ash by, all of my faff vourite people, all the things we did, all
the songs we sang together…

“Hmm…”

It took me some time to think about it, but I have fiff nally foff und my answer.
“I want to turn back the hands on the clock and let my mother return to youth
and live it once more,” I said fiff rmly.

“May your wish come true!”, the magician cheered.

I will choose to let my mother live through her youth once more.
My mother was once a little girl, an ordinary girl. She llivved in a small town in
Sarawak. Since my birth, she has grown frff omm aa litttle girl to a strong woman

today, or as I know her, my mother.

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