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The Hand Next Door

I’ve been in my current Shanghai apartment for four years, and I’ve come to know my neighbors fairly well. But for some reason, before this afternoon, I’d never noticed the religious statuary in the window that angles towards one of... ...full story at Shanghai Scrap

from Shanghai Scrap on Sun, Sep 21 2008

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