The six-year-old Lee knew even less about "death." On the day the elder of his younger sisters died of pneumonia, his mother left home before dawn to fill out the necessary forms in town, carrying with her a torch and the youngest of Lee's sisters, not even one month old.
讓李喬更不解的是「死亡」，而面對這道生命習題時，他才 6 歲。大妹罹患肺炎過世那天，早上天還沒亮，母親就揹著尚未滿月的小妹，舉著火把到大湖街上去辦理死亡手續。