A three-sister fable in the Chinese-folk register — Moon, Petal, Dove. Sold, carried, re-named — and then, one day, three planets each orbiting on its own path fell into perfect alignment. 17 pages.
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This week the paper devotes its whole issue to three sisters who first said the paper’s Chinese-folk cousin-name aloud — the daffodil gazelle.
Moon is the eldest, writing it all down. Petal was called the worthless girl and grew cabbages green. Dove is the one so captivated that when birds glimpsed her they forgot to fly. Each of them wanted exactly one …
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