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Seafarers' skies
today, cumulus humilis as far as the eye can see, mixed with altocumulus
castellanus, changing to stratus formations. I know a girl named
Mary, half American Indian, half Chinese. "You're way more
Indian than Chinese," I told her today, and she said she and
her husband have this argument all the time, "Which came first,
the Indians or the Chinese?"
We walked along the hall laughing and bumping arms. When we met
again later, face to face, she told me the story of Marco Polo,
how he had never seen paper money before his travels to China. Just
as I was about to go, she added, "Be careful what you wish
for!"
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