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Friday, January 09, 2026
I don't think I watched this fat girl movie to the end last time--it's quite good--but not believable
But then John Gardner said,"Fiction is the suspension of disbelief."
How could they not recognise each other?
My sister and her husband did not recognize me when I went back to Asia after 20 years.
Now I have already been here 44 years--wow.
But I wasn't virtually married to them and had children by them.
My aunt and cousin recognized me.
People asked my sister if she was the one broadacsting from RFA.
One friend from Eco Gen H ons said I'd changed.
One friend from my childhood in UK said I had not changed at all.
I only spoke a few minutes to my brother's friend --but he sounded just the same as when I was 7 and he was what? 14? On a few more emails he sounded just the same too.
Childhood crush.AH (changed initials)
But since he was a lawyer and did not want to handle our case, and retireed and the case hit a hurdle,I lost his email and did not like his male business partner, there was no reason to email him again.
I'm always losing emails and phone numbers.
Or when I remember and Google them, I find they have died.
Yes, it's rather distressing I must say--
Wait for when I weave these missed "romances" into fiction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqb6GGxjjw8
Boasting a bit--my TOEFL score was 769--I got into Ivy League Univ.of Pennsylvania--The man who gave me the test joked if I wanted to teach English--as a matter of fact I amnot that interested in teaching English or learning any more languages for their own sake.
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