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April 2018, Manchester

My dearest daughter,

As I looked across at you sitting on the sofa watching The X Factor, I noticed that you are no longer a child, and that having just celebrated your 14th birthday, you are now a young woman starting a journey into becoming an adult woman. As I looked at you, I remembered myself at 14, and the vastly different places we are beginning this journey from.

Your identity as a mixed-race young woman, with an English father and a Pakistani mother, has already influenced how you place yourself in this world. Until now, you are unaware of the personal struggles that I took at the age of 25 to marry. How it felt when my mother refused to come to my wedding. The sharp criticisms of the Asian community that such marriages do not work out and always end in divorce. The confidence I had to grow, as we chose to live in a multicultural community, as I refused to be shamed into living in the leafier white suburbs.

Then, at the age of 30, I became your mum with all the joys and struggles this brought, as I refused the Asian traditions for a new baby's arrival. From your birth, your life could not have been more different from mine. I was brought up on a council estate, within a tight-knit extended Muslim family, through which poverty, racism and neglect were woven. I was never given the freedoms or the opportunity to experience new things. Now, as I hear you play your piano, I am grateful that you have these opportunities.

So many doors were closed to me as a young person, and as I fought for small steps of freedom, I soon learned that it was better to do what I wanted without the knowledge of my parents, and so deceit and deception(欺骗) became woven into my life too. The pressures to obey, to be a "good Muslim" girl and to keep the family honour were choking. Behind closed doors at home, the neglect and abuse took place. It was hidden; I felt the shame, lived with the fear and suffered alongside my sister and two younger brothers. Oh, the power we thought our parents had over us! I was convinced that one day my father would indeed beat us so hard that leaving us for dead, he would, as his threats said, bury us in the large back garden and tell the school he had taken us back to Pakistan for good. My sister and I longed for a different blue sky to live under.

As a daughter of immigrant parents, I carried their hopes of a better education for their children my own veins(血管) pulsing with the hard-work ethic(道德) and need to be grateful for the opportunity of a free education. And it was education that provided me with the strength to find my own blue sky. I fought to leave home to go to university at the age of 18, and never returned to live with my parents again.

Now as you explore your mixed-race heritage, which I hope we have supported you to do with visits to Pakistan and ensuring you go to multi-cultural schools, I want you to take the very best of all that is Asian with you as you become a woman.

The struggles of identity and belonging will come but I hope that we have given you a strong foundation from which to explore these struggles. All the opportunities and freedoms that I only dreamed of as a young woman, I have offered you. I have chosen a different path of loving you as my daughter, with an unconditional love that many consider "western".

I want you to know that although your journey has been vastly different. I am excited as I watch you standing on the threshold of becoming a woman for all the adventures and possibilities the future holds for you.

May you fly your blue sky with grace, confidence and hope as you find your place in this beautiful and crazy world.

Loving you now and always.

Mommy

1.Mommy's mother refused to attend her wedding probably because _____.

A. she married against the wishes of her family

B. she refused traditional Asian wedding ceremony

C. she would leave the family to settle in the white suburbs

D. she would bring shame to the multicultural community

2.By "your life could not have been more different from mine." Mommy means ______.

A. her childhood was no different from her daughter's

B. her parents treated her the way she does her daughter

C. her daughter experienced the same traditions at birth with her

D. her daughter can enjoy the opportunities which she didn’t

3.What can be inferred from Mommy's Muslim family life?

A. She behaved like a good Muslim girl.    B. She fought against her Muslim identity.

C. She suffered much abuse in the family.    D. She was forced to drop out of school.

4.Mommy sends her daughter to multi-cultural schools to _____.

A. provide her daughter with more opportunities and freedoms

B. increase her daughter's exposure to different cultures

C. encourage her daughter to grow up to be a better woman

D. ensure her daughter more opportunities to visit Pakistan

5.Mommy writes the letter mainly to _____.

A. uncover the sufferings she had as a teenage girl

B. criticize the social prejudice in her community

C. emphasize the importance of family support

D. encourage her daughter to try to achieve her dream