I think I was there when I was 7 or 8 years old

And only there once in life, even though my home was at just 20 minutes away. I was born and raised in Zhengzhou. 

There was rarely any traveling in the 1980s. I went to Beijing many times because my aunt lives there. But kaifeng?

No one in my family wanted to go over there, even though it's so close by.