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‘He's quite good at football—joins the group for beer—We're both from the northeast, him Changchun and me Shenyang. After—drinks we—end up talking about our hometowns—I heard you were in a gang? he once asked. Only—robbed slot machines for them. I've been to Shenyang, he said. It's fine—no major disasters’

‘Where’s the Murakami mixtape? (I'd made her a CD of every piece of music mentioned in Murakami's books)’

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‘You ever want to see me again, just place an apple under the paw of the stone lion at Beiling Park's east gate—I'll remember that, I said. He smiled at me, turned and left. I watched from the window, but didn't see him emerge. I've eaten quite a few apples in the years since. To be honest, they're my favourite fruit, and I've never wasted a single one.’

— Oct 24, 2025 05:06PM

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‘—my great-great-great-uncle—superb woodworker who could make anything from a coffin to a comb. When he was fifty-five his heart exploded—he died on a pile of lumber. It happened so suddenly—leaving him bleeding from every orifice—Then—discovered that his heart was full of tiny wood shavings, enough to build a foot-high pagoda.’

'Our health insurance wouldn't be accepted in America—I'd need cash—a wave of despair—'

— Oct 22, 2025 06:11PM