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Ming-Ke, the most outgoing of my cousins, did the honors. "These are your father's little sisters: Big Auntie and Little Auntie. Little Auntie's husband is sitting up front with the driver. This van belongs to the construction company he manages. Li Mei is your eldest female cousin, she's 22 and works at the bank. your eldest cousin, my brother, had to work so he's not here. Li Gan is 21 just like you and is a student at Overseas Chinese University. Li Peng, we call her Premier, because her name is the same...
...could no longer stand the rough polyester of her slacks and a crick developed in my neck, I tried to sit up. But my aunt forced my head back down. I gave up. As I "slept," I suddenly heard retching noises in front and behind me. I sat up. Li Mei and Li Peng were holding smalll plastic bags to their mouths...
...made a special trip to the wharf, to buy my father's favorite fish for my welcome dinner. At dinner my cousins kept me supplied with the biggest piece of fish, the biggest shrimp, the biggest crab. Later, when he learned I had liked the Hami melons in Xinjiang, Li Gan made a special trip to the fruit stand. When we bicycled around the city, making a pilgrimage to my father's old high school or combing tape stores for recordings, Li Gan insisted on carrying the bicycle onto the sidewalk and locking it for me. We also stopped...
Students such as Canaday resident Angela S. Marinilli '97 and Leverett House resident Paul Li '96 said they are wondering about the fates of their roommates, who were supposed to arrive yesterday...
Marinilli and Li are both from the Boston area and did not have to fly in. But they have not heard from their roommates and fear they have fallen victim to the delays...