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She was in Tiananmen Square in the spring of ’89
when we asked about protesting she hesitated then made clear:
“No one cares that I was there.”
She wasn’t a student leader
she left before the tanks arrived.
“The government had to do something
provocation was out of control and besides
the largest public square in the world
was stinky from weeks of camping out and
had to be cleaned.”