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“I don’t want to be compared! We are different!”

Letters to an agony uncle: A mother can be trouble enough. She insists on study over play. She’s always hounding the kid to pass some test. She censors dates and mates. But add to that a failure, minor as it may be, that sparks Mom’s sense of do-die-or-be-killed competition.

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Student letters to a foreign agony uncle

Letters from Chinese students to a foreign agony uncle in a a state-owned English newspaper.

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