“The act of processing the memories I had suppressed for decades had freed me to see not just younger me, but the younger versions of my mother and father in their full dimensions. That in turn allowed me to honour everything we had been and had experienced—both the good and the bad.”
"Author Q&A: Qian Julie Wang" https://www.26.org.uk/articles/interviews/author-qa-qian-julie-wang (23 December 2021)
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