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continued to be close to me, no matter what other
people said. Actually, the more other people gossiped
about her and me, the more intimate she seemed to
be with me. Elephant was extremely exasperated.
She said ferociously, “The woman has no shame!
She has no shame at all! I have never seen such a
shameless woman!”
Black Peony’s husband was a graduate from an
institute of physical culture. He was to graduate from
that institute in 1966, but because of the great
cultural revolution, he had not been able to graduate
on schedule. Two years later, he was assigned to a
middle school in a border area between the Soviet
Union and China. Since then, they had been
separated from each other. But they loved each other.
Though they were separated for years, they were still
loyal to one another. Her husband worked as a Sports
teacher in that middle school. Since the border area
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