I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I&#39;m a bit of a romantic.

He’s a bad-ass, that Buddha is. Tear your nuts right off.

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might-have-been, and I did not want to leave him any more than I did my family.

Written By Alice Sebold

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