The Lady Fu
When I bought her I had a feeling she would bring me good luck.
Maybe she even told me she would bring me good luck, for how can one tell? Well, I
received good luck within minutes of bringing her out of the shop – £5 worth of
good luck, which is a small start but it wasn’t her fault that I’d been clumsy.
The problem was sorted. And that’s why I named her The Lady Fu, because ‘fu’ is
one of the words for good fortune in Chinese (whether Mandarin or Cantonese or
both I don’t know, but at least it’s Chinese and she seems happy with it.)
And that’s what’s special about her. She looks happy to be
here. She has a beautiful, happy smile – so beautiful and happy, in fact, that
even I smile every time I look at her. (You might have guessed by now that I
don’t smile much.) I think I might be forgiven for regarding her as the wife I
never had.
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