Li Tengfei, a traffic police officer in Sanhe, a small city in the northern Chinese province of Hebei, is now in her 27th year of public service. But she still remembers a note her son wrote many years ago when he was little.
“It read, ‘The soaked rice in the pot has swollen too much to cook, but my mother still isn’t home yet.’ I was always too late to make and have dinner with him. As I ran my fingers across his big, messy scribblings, I just felt for him,” Li told Beijing Review, adding that her son had gotten used to her busy work schedule as a child.
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