For the tragic victims of 9-11
And last but not least for the families they left behind to live on ......

After a twelve-year marathon love affair, Graham and I had decided to get married. The date was set for September 11, 2001; we’d be married in Wall Street’s Trinity Church at ten in the morning. Graham and I had met in Tokyo. I was twenty-four then and completing the second of my “celestial cycles? Graham’s love changed me and my life forever. To Chinese, twelve years mean one cycle has come to a close; twelve years now complete signify new beginnings. In my thirty-sixth year, at the close of the third of my “celestial cycles,” we had chosen to join our hearts forever, ‘til death do us part


 
Contents 

Synopsis

Chapter 1: Song of the Huangpu River 

1.1 Escape from New York 
1.2 The ups and downs of a Shanghai daughter 
1.3 Desire wakes a sleeping ghost 
1.4 A Passage to His Grave 
1.5 A Blood-colored Rose  
1.6 Hope's Tie 

Chapter 2: Human Nature

2.1 A young woman recalls her youth
2.2 A spotless patch of cloth
2.3 A torn tie
2.4 The escape

Chapter 3: Cherry Blossoms in the Autumn Wind 

3.1 Venetian red tears 
3.2 Beneath the light of the moon, a young lover sleeps 
3.3 Michiko and her dog 
3.4 At the airport 
3.5 A forgotten tie 
3.6 A saddened Sea of Japan 
3.7 The sun shines over Japan 

Chapter 4: Death in New York 

4.1 The disaster of a century 
4.2 An unexpected meeting 
4.3 The first time 
4.4 Endless Spring 
4.5 A night in Paris 
4.6 Sadness 
4.7 Wall Street in winter 
4.8 Farewell my love 
4.9 Smoke above the waters 
4.10 The final, beautiful days 
4.11 That bus stop in heaven 

 



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