Watering Heaven

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March 6: I first meet Sarah Chao in Beijing over tequila shots after a game conference. I tell her I think she’s beautiful and she tells me she has an unusual genetic quirk that scares off most men.

“Every time I have sex, I lay an egg.”

I assume she’s joking, get her email address. She’ll be coming out to the States in a few months and we agree to hang out then.

July 8, 7:45PM: Four months later, she’s in LA and I take her out to an exhibition about talented circus performers who’ve died in the act. We eat dinner at a ‘fusion’ restaurant on the Sunset strip, a motley of Asian and South American cuisines which end up tasting like neither.

8:04PM: X-ray profiles: me, Ethan Zhou, game designer, grew up in San Francisco, lived in China for three years researching iguanas and pandas. A previously broken ankle, pinky, and nose are the primary radioactive blips on my scan. Sarah Chao spent half her life in Kentucky, the other half in China. She’s a producer, outsourcing work for an online videogame, has a thick scapula, slender ribs, tender forearm, rounded pelvis, almost perfect mandible — and no broken bones.

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