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"In the alleyways, when the subject came up,
the Chinese looked down fearfully to one side
and whispered of a powerful fox spirit abroad,
maybe a thousand year t`ien hu."
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"But what a lonely road she had ahead,
unless she could accept someone else -
and he could accept Jennifer with the problem she had."
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"And why, in comparison to thirty years ago,
is the joyful dawn chorus of birds so muted now?.
Could it be due to the "progress" we've made?"
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"At last! I had found the perfect modeng girl,
embodying that quintessential modernity found only in Shanghai"
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"Engrossed in its own affairs Shanghai,
the love of my life, the place of my birth,
turned its back. On the wharf, a dead seagull,
its wing lifted by fitful gusts of wind, waved goodbye."