We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.