The women in the detention center didn’t much like me.
Among all those streetwise girls, I was the only one who wore glasses.
When they finally asked what I’d done, I told them: I’d stolen five thousand yuan from my parents to go to Peking University.
They laughed and called me an unlucky kid.
The day I got out, my parents didn’t come.
A battered van did.
Blondie rolled down the window and told me to get in.
She was taking me to the station.