A dark ceramic vase repaired with gold beside a rain-speckled window.

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The Joy Luck Club  ·  1989

Amy Tan

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Experience can take away the belief that nothing will hurt you. These words ask what you might keep when that belief goes: hope, laughter, and the ability to pass them on to someone younger.

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