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Isn't that squash?

This is growing (really tall) all around our apartment community as well as around the city in general. However, I have not seen any fruits come from the flowers. In the store we have bought squash that is shaped like yellow squash but dark and light green shaped with a similar flavor.
Familiar

October 9th 2013
It is funny how we are always looking for the familiar, something to relate to what we already know. Being here in China though we are surrounded by many differences, we are also enveloped by the familiar, the similar. These range from stores and brands (H&M, MacDonald's, the ubiquitous Coca Cola, Converse) to plants (black eyed susans in the rural fields, squash growing in our apartment compl ... read more
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Chinese Flag For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
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