2nd Feb 2010

Dear Lim Sek-Iong Sian-sin,

我很抱歉，我遲來的回信。事實是，91歲的我獨自生活，我覺得很難應付所有我應該做的事。

然而，我非常感激你們仍然有把我列在自台灣退休宣教師的名單內。我也很擔心台灣目前的政府。我真的不明白，為什麼台灣人民會選擇回到國民黨？還是說，在某種方式，民進黨是失敗的？但是，似乎沒有什麼我能做的。一個小小的安慰是，我的女兒（在台北出生）最近給我一張新的世界地圖，其中列舉台灣作為一個單獨的獨立國家，並說儘管中國的強悍要求，但是，似乎很難期望台灣與中國會“重新統一”。

非常感謝您的問候和支票。這是一個很貼心的關懷，我想您現在可以將我的名字從名單中刪除。我已經老了，我懷疑是否還能活過這1年的時間。

I am so sorry I have not replied to your kind letter (with cheque enclosed) before now. The truth is that living on my own and 91 years old, I find it hard to cope with all the business I should be doing.

I do, however, appreciate the fact that you still have me on your list of co-workers in Taiwan. I too am very worried about Taiwan’s present government. Why on earth did the Taiwanese people go back to choosing the KMT? I just can’t understand it. has the DPP been a failure in some way? But there seems nothing I can do about it. one small consolation is that I was recently given a new world atlas by my daughter (who was born in Tai-pak) which lists Taiwan as a separate independent country and says in spite of Chinese demands, there is little expectation that it will ever be “re-united” with the mainland.

Thank you very much for your greetings and the cheque. It was a most good-hearted gesture. I think all the same that you could now cross me off your list. I doubt if I could still be alive on earth in a year’s time.

Greetings and thanks to you all,

Boris Anderson