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9 Seven Reasons for Divorce During the Shang Dynasty (1765–1123 BC) Disobedience (to in-laws) I am the girl who wakes within an ocean, making winter melon soup for my mother-in-law, whose taste buds rise like thorns. Jealousy Your new maid returns to your room again. I am in the kitchen, chopping pork into a guillotine of red river. The stew smells like your boiling heart. Disease I am thinning, unable to hold even a hairpin up. My body pocked like a Fabergé egg. My face in the mirror has a hole in it. Why won’t it grow back? Adultery He built a hurricane for me. You had the same chance to hunt in me. Idiot. How you missed my heart in its throbbing coat, I will never know. Stealing Yes, I ate them. The red bean, a roiling surf on my tongue turned to mud only because you found out. 10 Bareness Something is thundering in my body. You can hear it in the soil, bulbs breaking out into a cathedral. Talking too much I still mean what I did not say. ...

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