I picked Mei Mei up from a busy shopping street near my home about four years ago. She was sitting on the sidewalk in front of a fortune-telling place, bleating like a goat at anyone who passed by. Now, whenever my husband and I pass that spot, we always stop and remember that's where we got Mei Mei.
The fortune-telling business is long gone, and the sidewalk was repaved a few weeks ago. When we walked by yesterday we stopped, as usual, at the spot. There, while the concrete was still wet, someone had traced a little heart with an M underneath-it's now enshrined forever in the sidewalk. My husband swears he didn't do it, and I know I didn't. The heart is rather crudely drawn, so perhaps Mei Mei went out one night and did it herself. That was her lucky spot on her lucky day. Ours, too.
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