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[jasonlulu_2000]

My mother and i had fought this battle almost as long as i could remember. My mother, dissatisfied with my father's plain workman's life, determined that i would not grow up like him and his people. But never did she expect that, forty years later, such a successful journalist as me would go back to her husband's people for true life and love.


What does the last sentence mean? Does it mean that I am now a workman like my father instead of being a journalist? OR I find a wife who is a worker like my father.

Thanks

[CP]

I think it means that the mother succeeded in getting her daughter out of the sticks and into a successful career, so she (mother) would never have guessed that the daughter would want to return and settle down in the humble place she left so long ago. We can guess that the mother never would have returned if she had been able to escape.
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