Diana and I made necklaces of roseberries but what are roseberries compared to amethysts?

Two lines of travel lead south and east from Yunnanfu. One is the route of the railway through Mengtsz to French Indo-China, with a caravan trail which branches off to Szemao in the southwest. The other road is the big east highway to Kwangtung. This road goes overland to Poseh at the head of navigation on the Si Kiang in western Kiangsi, 355 miles distant, and requires twenty days of travel. From Poseh boats go down stream to Canton.

1987, Jean Davies Okimoto and Phyllis Jackson Stegall, Boomerang Kids: How to Live with Adult Children Who Return Home, Little, Brown, →ISBN.

Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).