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In “Two King” Jing Mai’s mother has high hopes that her daughter will be a great success as a prodigy. She's not precisely sure where her daughter's talents lie, but she is sure that her daughter possesses great ability. In the end Jing Mai find out her mother expect her to do well in the test that she exam her every night and she couldn’t answer the question that she asked me and my mom was disappointed at me. Since then something inside of me began to die. She start hated the test that raised hopes and failed expectation. Like Jing Mai, I have also felt pressured, but I reacted
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