Accompanying Lin Shu to the bar, her friends teased: “Can you handle it, Lin? Bringing a kid to a bar?” She handed me a bottle of Wanton Milk: “Young love needs to be watched closely.” Later, when I brought my girlfriend to meet her, she looked at me and smiled: “You used to call me ‘wife,’ now it’s ‘sister.’ Isn’t that a bit inappropriate?” 1 After my parents’ accident, I