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