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"That does sound convenient," says Liu Mingyan. She wonders if this conversation, itself, may serve as her opening—her experience finding their husband in this strangest of all realms, the changes she found in him, how unsettling but simultaneously hopeful, even joyful she found them. But—and this is the thing that has really prevented her from starting this conversation with Yingying so far—something else will be required of her, as well. "I'm afraid I may owe her an apology."