My parents got divorced when I was 9 years old, so I spent most of my life with only my mom, who has been emotionally unstable. I still remember that she went to a fortune-teller in order to get "hints" about her marriage failure and my fate with me after she got divorced. The fortune-teller started to move his fingers and foretold my future after I told him my name and time of my birth. He said, "Your daughter can't get married before 30 years old, or even fall in love with someone, she will have the same ending as her mother--living in desperate loneliness."
His prediction really made a great influence to me; I had literally no opposite sex friends until I came to the United States. Because of the prediction, I had to transfer to a girl school, and was not allowed to play with boys. But Andrew Pham, the author of Catfish and Mandala, a Buddhist monk, composed his sister's future on the day of her births that he said, "In the end, it will be as if she had no brother or sister.
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Charlotte and Susan Cushman (the Cushman sisters) ...No father or mother. Her life will be a difficult journey. She will die at thirty-two, alone of a broken hear. This child should be loved, for in the end she will have no one" (Pham 189). Chi was also affected by the prophecy. She did not believe her fortune and tried to make a strong struggle to escape her fate. Me too! I could not bear to live under my mother's control that was why I came to America. I wonder how "real love" is and want to find out what is "real love". Is this like Hollywood movies: Titanic, Romeo and Juliet? "Since the day Chi ran away, I...