Birthday in the Jing
October 16th 2007 'So what do you want for your thirtieth birthday?' Alan asked me on a rainy summer's day in Dublin.
I sat at my desk and looked around at the impressive array of gray files, paper-clips, staplers and three rulers to my name and thought hard.
A gust of air blew in signalling the arrival of the train and we boarded, making our way to Xizhímén station where we were to pick up a bus to the Summ
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