Longing for My Dream of Reunification to Come True 　　This is an article written by Zhang Kehui to mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan, in which the author says: 　　When this document was published on New Year's Day 20 years ago, I read it carefully word by word and sentence by sentence. I felt every word of the document was convincing and of practical significance. As a person who left his hometown in Taiwan 30 years ago, I naturally was thinking about my hometown and parents day and night. But I was well aware that my desire to go back to my hometown could hardly be fulfilled, however, meeting my relatives abroad or outside China was possible. So that night, I tossed and turned, simply could not fall asleep. When I did drop asleep, I dreamed a lot of dreams. In one dream, I met my parents in a ship, who hugged me tightly and presented me with a bouquet of lilies.... 　　In the morning of the following day, I went to a traditional Chinese medicine hospital to see Chinese-Japanese Mr. Chen, who left Taiwan to reside in Japan in the 1930s. Mr. Chen's children all served in Japan's medical circles. I discussed with him the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan and expressed my desire to contact my relatives in Taiwan. Chen indicated his willingness to pay a special trip to Taiwan and visit my families there. So I wrote a letter, prepared some photos taken in various periods, magnetic tapes and maps, I handed all these to him and asked him to pay attention to safety. 　　In summer that year, Mr. Chen came to Fuzhou again, so I went to see him at the Overseas Chinese Building. Chen said his visit to Taiwan was successful and everything went on well with my families, he also gave me my father's letter, several family photos and some tapes. 　　In August, Fujian organized a good-willed delegation to visit Japan, I was one of the members. Soon after the itinerary of the visit was fixed, my sister in Taibei said in a phone call: "Parents ask you to quickly arrange the meeting time and place. I told her the route of my travel to Japan. She asked what I wanted them to bring to me, I said I needed nothing. She said this was parents' idea, if you rejected anything, parents would feel distressed, so I said, well, please bring me some meat-filled zongzi (pyramid-shaped dumplings made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves) wrapped personally by my mother. 　　In autumn, I went to Japan as planned, and arrived in Tokyo a few days later. Immediately I gave a phone call to my relatives from whom I learned my parents, brothers and sisters had arrived in Tokyo a day before. That night, through the help of an overseas Chinese, I drove to meet my parents, brothers and sisters. I rushed to them, my parents embraced me tightly, I couldn't utter a word, reunion after a long separation made everyone weep for joy, then I enjoyed the zongzi wrapped personally by my mother. 　　I stayed in Tokyo for three days. Brothers and sisters asked me about my experience in the 30 years of separation, while my parents concerned only about my nuclear family in Fuzhou, trying to get to know things about their son-in-law and granddaughter. They laughed satisfactorily after learning that I had a happy family. 　　In the morning of departure, my parents held my hands tightly, saying, "you must promise we'll meet again." I pledged 　　My dream of meeting my relatives in 1979 had come true. Everybody has a fond dream. Like all other Chinese, I have a good dram of a prosperous and powerful motherland and peaceful reunification. I'm confident that this good dream will definitely be fulfilled 　　 HomeNews 1999-01-12 Page3 Full Story in Chinese