You want to read "the Wild Swans" - the book by that Chinese author(ess). It's like you collaborated with her :-)

I tried for many chapters but just got frustrated with her retrospectively introducing characters that she should have chapters ago, and oter such sins.

>I know - I was committing the cardinal sin of writing as I was thinking and not organizing it. That is how most of my comments on the UT are typed actually!
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>>Tracy, your chronology sucks! :-)
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>>>Actually, that was a few years later (1985-1986). I lived in Portland, OR as well (also Vancouver, WA) while I was a civilian, and I have an aunt who lives in Bellevue, WA. I visited Seattle and took the tour though while I was living in Menlo Park, CA and San Mateo, CA before I entered the military in 1981.
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