Yesterday afternoon I got a message from my younger sister. She told me that the family’s neighbor and best friend, as well as my teacher before, died in a car accident. At that time I felt like I had a heart attack(心脏病发作), so painful. He was a teacher, such a good person, and was so young. It was just unbelievable.

  I have known Mr Lin for more than twenty years. At that time I was still a little girl in the middle school, our headmaster introduced several young teachers to us in the morning. He was among them. In his early twenties, he was just an elder brother of us, smart, humorous(幽默的) and shy.

Later I went to a high school. It was far away from my hometown. Mr Lin’s small family moved to the new apartment above ours. Then we became neighbors. Later my father left us because of bad health, and my mother lived alone at home. Whenever there was something that my mother couldn’t deal with, Mr Lin helped her quite a lot.

My hometown suffered the flood(洪水) of the century last July. Our middle school was all flooded. Mr Lin sent a sick student to the hospital. Unluckily, he died on the road. And the news arrived hours later after the accident. Suddenly the whole school was in great sorrow(悲痛).