by Ting-Xing Ye
How I wish that Great-Aunt were still alive so she would know that I, after all these years, wrote a story about bound feet, telling of the suffering and misery she and many women endured. But most of all, telling of a girl in her time who won her freedom.
Author’s note
“Nai-nai” is “grandmother” on the paternal side: “ai” pronounced as “eye;” Fu-gui, pronounced Foog-way (“ui” as in “away”), means “rich and precious.”
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