In this photo and how we're connected: me, my co-worker and friend from rural Yunnan - Ken, my cousin Grace, her friend Angela, and her friend's boyfriend Jerry.
Ken is the only resident of Beijing in this photo - here, he took us out to Maomaochong, Chinese for Caterpillar, a cute pizza place with amazing drinks during our short visit. While we were at dinner, Angela mentioned to Jerry that I used to IM her on AOL - her screenname was something that I had gleaned from Grace's AOL account. That was when I was 12 and I didn't have enough friends of my own and I could read fast enough to see Grace's screen and Angela's screenname just so happened to always be on top... far be it strange for me NOT to be mortified - see, it's been so long that I can laugh, she can laugh, and we can all get fun drunk off of flat bread pizza and delicious drinks in a hutong in Beijing.
Plus, given the fact that I lost all semblance of shame in 2002, this was just something else that I can look back on positively from this past vacation.
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