"It almost feels like my previous stint in China is flowing seamlessly into this one, but it's as though I have suddenly transformed into a being with twice the capacity for cultural acceptance, twice the capacity for communication, and who has suddenly rather fresh eyes to see a place that, I now realize, I had gotten so used to that it made me blind to it." So I articulated to my great, new friend Barbara, shortly after arriving in Shanghai. I was on a path, winding through China, and when I stepped onto that plane, back in 2008, I was teleported, it seems, onto another path far away. And in America I learned so many important things, and began to carve a path through that place...but as I stepped onto the plane to return to Shanghai
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