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It is clear he means with Shen Yuan, this wandering, compassionate ghost in the body of a man Liu Mingyan has watched Luo Binghe dismember with a sick satisfaction that had made her alien to herself. "I am familiar with his hands," she says. "You know they did not always belong to the man who is your friend." This is not a question; if Sagramore is friend to both Shen Yuan and Luo Binghe he must have heard some version of this story. "I confess the part of this I struggle to accept most is not that my husband desires men, but that he would have realized that desire solely because of a man who looks like him, specifically."