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Neighbours: Canadian immigrant shares her experiences finding family close to home


January 12th, 2021
Gu Zhenzhen
Community, Living
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There is a Chinese saying which goes: “A distant relative is not as close as a nearby neighbour.” I found this to be true after Petra, a young South Korean woman, and her family moved into our apartment building in Toronto’s west end. Before that, I did not know any of our neighbours. I could only hear them talking, laughing and singing behind the closed doors and wondered who they were and where they came from.
Petra and I became fast friends probably because we had something in common: both of us came from Asia. We stayed home to look after our baby sons and cooked, cleaned, did laundry and the grocery shopping. And we both felt lonely and got bored sometimes. Petra often invited me over for delicious lunch and dinner in her basement apartment. I celebrated her 28th birthday, sharing a birthday cake and singing “Happy Birthday”. She acco ....

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