She grew up with anxiety and uncertainty as her constant companions. "When I was small I felt really unlucky having no mother." In her life Hsiao Wen could not hear her mother's voice, or see her mother's form or even her picture. After being apart for only five years, she had forgotten virtually every impression of her mother that she had.
「小時候覺得自己很可憐，沒有媽媽，」小玟語氣平和地述說著，除了爸爸會灌輸些媽媽是「壞女人」、搞外遇、不要孩子等尖刻批評外，生活中聽不到媽媽的聲音、看不到媽媽的身影或照片，只是分離短短 5 年，小玟對媽媽的印象就幾乎消失殆盡。