The Church of Almighty God / A Father and His Step-Daughter Surpass the Ties of Blood
By Xia Zixuan, Hubei Province
A Grey Childhood
Pictures of The Church of Almighty God
There was no mother and no father around when Zixuan was growing up; she didn’t know what the cakes the children from the city talked about tasted like, and she’d never seen a goldfish blow bubbles in a fish tank. On no evening did she ever hear the stories of Grimm’s fairytales, but instead she listened to her grandpa tell her the story of The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants. Her real father leaving and her mother remarrying had brought about feelings of inferiority when she was little,