Jiang Yu discovered that she could talk to her seventeen-year-old self. It was amazing. She often tried to caution her seventeen-year-old self, hoping she wouldn't make the same mistakes. The girl was always rebellious, just as you'd expect at that age. As they spent time together, Jiang Yu noticed that one name came up often in her younger self's conversations: Tong Dan.
On Jiang Yu's thirtieth birthday, her twenty-year-old self asked if she could have a gift. Jiang Yu quietly agreed.
Then twenty-year-old Jiang Yu said:
"I want to know where Tong Dan is. Jiang Yu, she's still here, right?"
After that, Jiang Yu never spoke to herself again.
Until, at thirty-two, Jiang Yu stood in South Street Cemetery beneath an umbrella. She watched her twenty-two-year-old self weep uncontrollably at Tong Dan's grave. At that moment,
Jiang Yu thought:
A coward is like this at any age...
Theme: May all lovers find their way to one another, especially those of the same sex.
