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“Yes, of course”

“The higher-ups would bethe other way for your brother-in-law”

“I know, and I’ll accept my punishment, but I hope you’ll hear me out first”

“Go ahead”

“The All-Patriotic Society is a peaceful group—”

“They don’t seeonistic toward us last night”

“I heard you went to a er “I think the people saw you and your foreigner as intruders in the one place they’ve considered safe Instead of showing their fear, they revealed anger This reaction is common, is it not, whether in our personal relationships or as a community?”

Ho the cult to operate in Bashan—and confessing his crime to her—for reasons she had yet to comprehend

“Usually the All-Patriotic Society promotes har months to control the emotions of the masses You and I have seen the opposite of that, correct? We’re both old enough to have lived through the Cultural Revolution We both knohat can happen when hate is stirred up”

“You take on a heavy and dangerous responsibility”

Hoeneration away from the land I knohat it is to eat bitterness”

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??But do you knohat it means to be a martyr?” she asked

“Yes,” he answered evenly

Hulan doubted that he did It was one thing to have a noble cause and quite another to spend ten years in a labor camp