Perhaps He Was Afraid As I Was

And One Of The Interesting Things About Bound Feet Is That They Never Age.

I Don't Really Know Anything About The Movie Business, Even Though I've Lived In Los Angeles My Whole Life - Somehow I've Never Bumped Into It.

Our Words Had To Be Circumspect. We Could Not Write Anything Too Negative About Our Circumstances. This Was Tricky, Since The Very Form Of A Married Woman's Letter Needed To Include The Usual Complaints -- That We Were Pathetic, Powerless, Worked To The Bone, Homesick, And Sad. We Were Supposed To Speak Directly About Our Feelings Without Appearing Ungrateful, No-account, Or Unfilial.

Maybe We're All Like That With Our Mothers. They Seem Ordinary Until One Day They're Extraordinary.

I Am An Eighth Chinese, And I Come From A Large Chinese-american Family In Los Angeles.