Everyone has a Xiao Fang, or two. For Chinese, it's more common to bury the past. For a western, it's part of dinner party converstation.

I remember chatting with a staff at the research center where I was a student after Hurrican Andrew (1992) passed by. We were supposed to evacuate, but I stayed. So, we exchanged stories (personal experiences). G told me that he and his girlfriend went to her exhusband's exgirlfriend's house. I had been at the lab for 5+ years by then, but G and I were not friends. I imagined what a Chinese would say in such a case: "We went to a relative's house," or "We went to a friend's house."

After being in the US for 20+ years, I am still half (Chinese) and half (American). But, I have learned to use words such as "ex-es" and "step-s," at least in English.

视频: 李春波《小芳》（歌声飘过30年）

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