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MITCH BERMAN |
Immoral Woman |
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As surely as Ruan Lingyu never knew anything to equal a slice of ginger she once cut for her mother — not since her childhood, not since her death — so I have not yet known anything to equal my encounter with Ruan herself. I do not know whether I will ever again have such an experience, but if I do, I am unlikely to receive any warning when or how such an experience may arrive, or to know — even at the moment it is happening — that it will become a memory. I can have no idea whether a memory will linger until tomorrow, or longer; it may stay with me my entire life, or, as it did with Ruan Lingyu, even longer than that. |
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Appeared in different form as “Interview with an Angel” |
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