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“We have many lives, Afong, but this life begins when we realize we only have one.”
In America, a lie becomes the truth with sufficient repetition. I merely tell the crowd what they need to hear to be satisfied.”
“Women are born to lead lives of inconsistency.” She tried not to cry as she held Afong’s hands. “While it is our curse, it can also be our strength.”
To be so well known and yet so unknown at the same time, the madness of—as Yao Han might say it—being praised for having wings but kept in a cage.
