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• W3047701296 abstract "Everyone Is Alone for a Lifetime Wang Suxin (bio) Translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping When my parents decided to get divorced, they discussed it with me. This was a knotty problem. Because of the high divorce rate in our country, divorced people were punished by being changed into statues standing outside their own homes and never allowed to move back inside. Even so, the divorce rate continued to rise. A lot of homes were blocked by all kinds of statues; most were stone lions. Some prosperous households could actually accumulate statues of all twelve zodiac animals in front of their homes. But my family lived in an apartment building, so the only option was to settle my parents somewhere on open land. That’s why my parents had to consult with me beforehand. All through the summer, in order to deal with the aftermath of their divorce, I looked everywhere for a cheap underground garage or a small single room, but rents had recently soared. A small basement room could actually cost 10,000 yuan a month. I exhausted all of the business negotiating skills that I had learned over the years, and I even promised the other parties that the lease would run for at least ten years—meaning that my parents wouldn’t remarry in that time. Still no landlord was willing to lower the rent to an affordable sum. I tried to seek help from friends and relatives, but when they found out my parents were getting divorced, they kept their distance from me, though my family had always been good to them. This triggered the last argument my parents had before they divorced: which one of them had insisted on buying the apartment? To calm them down, I said that nowadays, even if we lived in a house instead of an apartment, I would still have to pay for a space to set up their statues outdoors. But they absolutely would not listen to me and instead were annoyed that I had interrupted their argument. They divorced not long after that. I spent my days running around looking for a suitable place for the statues. At night, I was even more exhausted as I tried to figure out which kind of statues offered the greatest probability that my parents would remarry. I folded slips of paper with the names of various magical beasts and zodiac animals written on them, and put them in a container. My parents would choose the type of statues they would become by drawing them out without looking. I folded the paper carefully. To make sure my parents would both pick the same [End Page 123] names of magical beasts that were most likely to remarry, I made two wads of paper bigger and neater than the others. It turned out, however, that my parents were so determined to get divorced that neither of them considered the cost of the whole process, and they chose the pair of zodiac animals with the least chance of remarrying: horse and sheep. I despaired, but I couldn’t persuade them. I could only comply. According to regulations, the financial obligation for the statues remaining in place would be borne by the government after fifteen years. Although fifteen years was a long time, at least I could look forward to the end of my obligation. I sold the family apartment and rented a small bungalow in the suburbs. Power and water outages occurred often, and I spent five hours commuting to and from work every day. But when I thought of the happy life I would have in fifteen years, I felt I could put up with it. And so my parents happily divorced, and I became a slave to my two rents. In order to keep the statues looking brand new, I scrubbed them once a week in the basement where I stored them. The basement lacked water and electricity, so I had to carry the water from a distance and store a lot of detergent there. This work always took a day, but I never tired of it. And to be honest, for the first two years after they divorced, I was..." @default.
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