Humorous Wedding Speech: Mao's Last Dancer

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Mao's last dancer speech
Good morning staff and students, my name is Li Cunxin and I hope that what I tell you today will influence but first I will ask you a question what would your family do for you and would you do the same for them. When
I was born into utter poverty under Maus regime in China between 1958 to 1961 there were roughly between 35 to 38 million people died of starvation in China. I was born in 1961 we have no running water when I grew up we walked miles to carry buckets of water home each day, we have a little almost no heating the temperature in my hometown could drop all the way down to between 18 to 20 degrees below zero at winter time the worst memory of all when i grew up we had no food to eat nearly every dinner time my poor mother this
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Never think that it's good enough. ALWAYS seek to improve yourself and your skills and no matter what happens always keep a positive outlook and never give up on your dreams, but if you give up and don’t try your hardest then you will never NEVER achieve your goals, and you will never do what you want to. Let me tell you a quick story That my father used to tell me. There once was a frog living in a well and to this frog, the well was the entire world, but one day another frog from outside the well looked in and asked, “What's down there?”, And the trapped frog told him that everything was down there, but the other frog sadly told the trapped frog that there was an enormous world that he hadn’t seen. Later, the trapped frog asked his father if there was a bigger world out there and his father told him that there was. The young frog spent the rest of his life trying to get out of the well but never did. So if you just laze around and don’t try to improve yourself, you will be just like that frog and will never achieve your

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