The earliest memory of Boston -- the name -- come from my middle school English text book, which was a story of Titanic. The lady who was going to Bostong gave her seat on the lifeboat to another person. Later on, from the story of the American history, the name of Boston was again connected with the first gun shot of independence. So, Boston gave me an impression of humanity and a sense of liberty.
This impression was reinforced after I attended the anual GNU Linux meeting at MIT accompanied by my favoriate mustang. At that time, I was an enthusiastic free software supporter and already read Richard Stallman's famous article before came to US. Frankly, it was still quite shocking to meet the person himself. Due to the limited stay, I didn't have chance to see Harvard.
My second visit to Boston was at the end of 2008 and stayed at my friends house for the winter holidays. Besides the happiness of playing the Wii game with friends, what's left in my memory was the raining evening from Rode Island airport to Boston, the train to the center of the city and the Harvard campus covered with snow.
Three years after that, I knew I'm going to leave the US for a while, I visited Boston again with Yunxia. It was great to meet my friends and classmates again, while the feeling was a mixture of gratitude and soft sorrow...
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