Yeah, it was kind of. And how long after you moved to China did you meet your husband? Well, we worked in the same building, but I wasn't really aware of him until we got sent. OK, you really want to know this? Sure. In 1987, there was a county in Jiangsu province that was growing fruit trees for the first time and they'd gotten sort of relatively rich and they wanted propaganda about this. So they invited, you know, so-called journalists from Beijing to come and visit. And so I was sent with my interpreter and the guy who worked at our magazine, the Indian guy was sent. And he had his interpreter, who is now my husband. He spoke, he was an Hindi interpreter because he'd been in the Chinese army, had been trained in Hindi to be in the army on the border with India. So we spent three weeks together traveling around Jiangsu, you know, going to communes and, you know, learning about tea growing and, you know, congratulating people on their factory accomplishments. And then I don't know, (7/57)
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