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Writing Mary hated writing composition. "What do you want to convey to everyone? Why do you use the word? You should consider which word 'lives' in the sentence." She hated her mother in teaching composition to her. Her mother was a radio and TV script writer. So she was particular about using words. The harder her mother taught her, the more she hated writing.

One morning, in making a free composition, Mary quarreled about the content of the composition with her mother very hard. So she ran away with her unfinished homework. "I don't like my mother! I don't like writing! I can't write 'my' story...." She cried a long time. A few hours later, she slowly took a pen, and began to write. The title is "I hate making a free composition". She kept on concentrating on writing, and never stopped. When she wrote off the composition, the day was drawing to an end. She realized her new and comfortable feeling. "Well...." She thought of a sentence, and added the sentence to the composition. She stood up slowly, and began to walk home, with her homework completed.

Two months later, Mary was on the stage and recited 'her' composition to a large audience in the big contest. Her mother was smiling to her, and she was smiling to her mother too. When her recitation finished, she gazed at her mother, and said, "I hated making a composition, but I realize that I really love writing." She grinned to her mother. "I realize that I am really the daughter of you!" Mary is really me.