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- Title: Temporary Love
- Author : Shenandoah
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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Lina put a pinecone candlestick on the dining table, then sat down on a love seat to wait for Panlin. This was the first time she had cooked dinner since they lived together. They were both married, their spouses still in China, and about a year ago she had moved into Panlin's house. They had become "a wartime couple," a term referring to those men and women who, unable to bring their spouses to America, cohabit for the time being to comfort each other and reduce living expenses. Indeed, for some men such a relationship was just a way to sleep with women without having to pay, but Panlin had never taken advantage of Lina. He even claimed he had finally fallen for her and might go berserk if she left him. Still, they had separate phone lines in the house. Whenever speaking to his wife, he'd keep his door shut, although Lina didn't mind him listening when she called her husband. It was sprinkling, raindrops pattering on the bay windows fitfully. Lina was watching the evening news, but her mind hardly registered what the anchorman was saying, nor was she captivated by the horrific scene of the havoc caused by a suicide bomber at a bus stop in Mosul. Around six o'clock the door opened, and Panlin stepped in. Leaving his umbrella in a corner to dry, he said, "H'm, smells good." He was a tall man of thirty-four and looked younger than his age.