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Do you remember one year ago?<\/p>\n
The sweaty train ride, me worried about another bout of near-heat stroke? Arriving late in Changsha? Racing through the streets of a city we didn\u2019t know to a registry office we weren\u2019t sure was open?<\/p>\n
Do you remember completing the forms and making our promise before the three uniformed women in a dark office? Or me, not being able to recite that pledge, written only in Chinese characters?<\/p>\n
Do you remember it was 7-7, Chinese Valentines day, unplanned, and a fortuitous omen. It was if the fates had smiled and spread their blessings upon us. That was why I was rushed that day, panicked on the train as I looked at my watch, and ran through the station, hell-bent. We had to be married that day, July 31, 7-7, there could be no better beginning.<\/p>\n
Do you remember the yet-to-be opened hotel where we shared our first official night? Or our wedding feast at KFC while trying to book plane tickets to return home? Or the police knocking on the door and hurriedly dressing, like caught teenagers, even though we had the papers to prove our union?<\/p>\n
I know you remember. I do too.<\/p>\n
Our first anniversary finds you in a different country, on a different continent. I write you this, \u7231\u4eba, to show there are some things I will never forget.<\/p>\n
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Do you remember one year ago? The sweaty train ride, me worried about another bout of near-heat stroke? Arriving late in Changsha? Racing through the streets of a city we didn\u2019t know to a registry office we weren\u2019t sure was open? Do you remember completing the forms and making our promise before the three uniformed… <\/p>\n