... ." All my stories started from my hometown named Tonghaikou, in the middle of China. I lived there with my extended family, when my parents went to the United States to study law. This inland town connects to no sea, but gives a promise in its name. There, I grew my toughness, my yearning for the outside world, and my ardent love of reading ... the somehow scary idea that I might not exist, and all of what I have experienced could be just a dream. More than 10 years later in my philosophy seminar, I read Hume and Descartes, and laughed for the foreshadowing life placed for me. Tonghaikou...

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