A Fortuitous Omission.

Where oh where were all the Chinese girls when I was still young enough to go cap in hand to beg the honour of…

I think it fortunate that they were mostly still in China or the backstreets of Chinatowns around the globe. (The city in which I was brought up had no Chinatown.) I think I might have angered the Lady Quan Yin, and where would my life have been then? I think I wasn’t good enough and the fates were being kind.

Next time around, though…