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A school courtyard gate standing open at the top of a worn stone step.

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谁是老师?

Who Is the Teacher?

Two strangers introduce themselves at a language school. Names, then countries, then the one question that turns out to have a surprise in it: which of them is the student and which is the teacher.

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