"Yes, actually, we went through a period of bringing lizards back home...and frogs, and bugs, and worms. We grew up next door to each other, you know. We tried to go on a cross-country trip when we were ten with our bikes and a backpack of food each...the police picked us up about twenty miles out and dragged us home. I thought my mother was going to have a heart attack at that! Then there were the boys I dated."

She laughed and shook her head, "Oh, I never made a good choice in my life, until I married Yinsi."