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And I also try to convince myself that they don’t have enough brains to know the difference between a hot bath and a slow death.
“Don’t be so old-fashioned, Ma,” she told me, finishing her coffee down the sink. “I’m my own person.” And I think, How can she be her own person? When did I give her up? * * *
The next day he asked me in English, “Lindo, can you spouse me?”
And I laughed at him and said he used that word incorrectly.
named him Winston because I liked the meaning of those two words “wins ton.” I wanted to raise a son who would win many things, praise, money, a good life.
Two years after Winston was born, I had your other brother, Vincent. I named him Vincent, which sounds like “win cent,” the sound of making money, because I was beginning to think we did not have enough.
telltale Chinese behaviors, all those things my mother did to embarrass me—haggling with store owners, pecking her mouth with a toothpick in public, being color-blind to the fact that lemon yellow and pale pink are not good combinations for winter clothes.
