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This story is about a woman named An-Mei, and her struggles to watch her daughter go through her divorce, and she remembers a lot of different; depressing, and cruel stories of her past life. For example, An-Mei, as a child wasn't aloud to see her mother because she was shunned by her family. Something that really made me feel bad is that An-Mei was only aloud to take one of her two children back with her to America. She made the choice to take her daughter to America, and to leave her only son in China, and it was very likely that she would probably never going to be able to see him again. Eventually An-Mei moves in with her mother, even though she's a concubine with a lot more women, and she begins to see the hard life of living with a lot of women that really don't have a life outside of a house with an terrible and cruel man that abuses his wives. As An-Mei continues to live with her mother, she seems to start to dislike the other women in the house, and they seem to grow a type of "Hate" towards each other, and they show this hate by committing many different rude and disrespectful actions towards each other. Something i think would've been hard for An-Mei to do is to grow familiar with the different rules of America, because she comes from a very different culture, and she's diving into a whole other society filled with ignorant jerks.