Candi's Graduate School Life in the United States

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遊子心聲

The following article was published 

in The Great China Evening News 

(大華晚報)

The article is a compilation of 21 letters 

written by Candi in the years 1978-1980 

while she was studying for her MA in EFL Teaching 

at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

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