Feathers From a Thousand LI Away

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    The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its ne hopes of being a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat.

    Then the woman and the swan sailed across an o m>.</a>any thousands of li wide, stretg their necks toward America. On her journey she cooed to the swan: &quot;In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husbands belch. Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect Ameri English. And over there she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow! She will know my meaning, because I will give her this swan—a creature that became more than what was hoped for.&quot;

    But when she arr<tt>?t>ived in the new try, the immigration officials pulled her swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swaher for a memory. And then she had to fill out so many forms she fot why she had e and what sh藏书网e had left behind.

    Now the woman was old. And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. For a long time now the woman had wao give her daughter the single swaher and tell her, &quot;This<s></s> feather may look worthless, but it es from afar and carries with it all my good iions.&quot; And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect Ameri English.

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