"Iâ€™m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than Iâ€™d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, Iâ€™ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. Iâ€™ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate."

-- Susan Jane Gilman

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