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Hope springs eternalβa truism for jilted lovers and for the children of dying parents. We convince ourselves the inevitable isnβt, and when it is upon us, we rail and plead. Or deny. Busy with preparation and travel, I had pushed away my worry; now that I was here, at midmorning in Taipei, when less than a day before Iβd been in the chilly Bay Area, my new reality struck me.
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