2:11:00
Who knows why, but it happened
to be a coffin shop.
2:11:03
My wife thought...
2:11:05
"It's the seventh day
of the seventh month."
2:11:07
So she cooked some oily rice as
offering to the goddess of children.
2:11:10
My father-in-law's eyes always lit up
when he saw a bottle.
2:11:13
If there was drink,
he had to drink it.
2:11:17
So he got drunk
and fell asleep in a coffin.
2:11:20
In the middle of the night...
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he woke up shivering.
2:11:24
I asked him what was wrong.
2:11:27
First he was cold, then hot.
2:11:30
The locals said
he had contracted malaria...
2:11:36
compounded by
acclimatization problems.
2:11:39
He was the first.
Then it was my turn.
2:11:43
The third was my wife.
2:11:48
Fortunately, my elder son and
daughter didn't get the disease...
2:11:53
but my younger son did.
2:11:57
He wasn't even two years old.
2:12:02
The fever was hidden...
2:12:03
in his belly.
2:12:05
My father-in-law was
in the worst shape.
2:12:09
My situation was less serious.
2:12:11
Every time I had attacks,
they lasted an hour or so...
2:12:15
and I would shiver
until my nose bled.
2:12:18
Slowly the fever subsided.
2:12:20
I kept trying to get
train tickets back to Taipei...
2:12:24
but it was impossible.
2:12:27
Too many people
had been evacuated.
2:12:31
I kept trying, but it wasn't until
the 1 2th day of the eighth month...
2:12:36
that I finally got the tickets.
2:12:39
So then what happened?
2:12:40
All my money was spent on doctors
in that little village.
2:12:45
We buried my father-in-law there.
2:12:49
When we got back to Taipei,
I only had 50 cents in my pocket.
2:12:53
What could I do
with just 50 cents?
2:12:55
I hired a rickshaw...
2:12:59
to take my wife, daughter
and younger son back home.