Last night, my dad and family friend left for China after visiting for three weeks.
This was our family friend's first time out of the country.
Almost every night she was here, she would sit at the kitchen bench with glasses borrowed from Mum (because she lost all her pairs in Sydney and Queensland) with our tablet and read news websites banned in China. She asked to see pictures of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. She would sit motionless for a couple of hours at a time, only moving her hand occasionally to select other stories, only moving her mouth every now and then to utter a sigh.
It's not going to work forever, it's not even working properly now, and when it starts crumbling to a point when they should be worried, I wonder what they're going to do.
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