The Joy Luck Club Page #3

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She said she was going to Chungking

to meet the man who was her husband.

That was the first time I ever heard

she was married before my father.

She barely had time to grab

her babies, twin girls.

That was the first time

I heard she had other babies.

I always try to picture

in my mind what really happened...

but she would never explain.

She would only say by the time

she reached Chungking...

she had lost everything.

And I said,

"Wait, what do you mean 'everything'?

What happened

to those babies?"

There were so many things about

my mother I never understood.

This is the only one

I never forgave.

The babies.

You know?

Two babies?

The babies? We all thought

that the babies had died.

- But last month at a church picnic--

- You know...

two babies your mother leave

on the roadside, in wartime?

It's miracle,

but we find them.

Yes! Can you imagine?

They still alive!

What are you saying?

They're alive?

I think your mother

always want to find them...

her long-cherished wish.

So after she died,

we tried for her;

- writing, writing, writing.

- "My--"

- This is from them, those babies?

- Ah, no baby anymore.

They're alive!

Oh, what does it say?

What does it mean?

It say--

See here?

They are very glad--

No, no, no, no, no.

Overjoyed beyond belief...

at last find you,

their little sister.

And they say--

See here?

How sad, how very sad...

too late to meet their mother...

now she no longer in this world.

Yes, yes.

It says--

See here?

You must come to China

and meet them...

and tell them

all about their mother.

What could I tell them?

I didn't know anything

about her. She was--

- She was my mother.

- What do you mean?

Tell them how smart she was...

- Your mother is your voice.

- how kind she was.

- Everyone love her.

- How sincere, how hard-working she was.

- And the excellent dishes she cooked.

- Even better than mine.

And how beautiful she sang.

Don't you remember?

How can a daughter

not know her own mother?

You're right.

I will tell them.

I-I should.

I want to.

June? June.

What you thinking?

Oh, those babies,

of course. The twins.

I can't believe I'm actually

going to meet them.

How sad they must have been

when you told them Mom died.

That must have been the hardest

letter for you to write.

Oh, peanut bowl empty.

Oh! Oh, I'll get us some.

All this time never

telling her the truth.

- Must tell her today.

- How can you not tell her?

How can I tell her what

the letter really say?

Then she never go to China,

never go to see her sister.

Am I right?

Yes, of course.

Lindo, I still think it's wrong.

It's so sad for those babies.

How could Suyuan

give them up?

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