Even now, five years later, I do not let my children get close to me,
although I sometimes allow my wife to sit with me while I eat. I try to
accept my countrymen now, but the proud ones, who are so full of their
own self-importance—well, they had better not come near me. How sad that
people cannot learn from the Houys! I was hoping that perhaps human
beings would change their ways after reading the stories of my life with
the Houys. But they accuse me of lying in my book. And now I realize
that people still lie, steal, and fight, just as they have always done,
and probably will always do
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