I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.