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  1. A good friend of mine is a Chinese woman who escaped during the Cultural Revolution — she swam to Hong Kong from Canton. She had been back to China many times since but never to her village where she returned a few years ago. She said that she didn’t recognize a single thing.

  2. I have only given money to street / subway performers on the following occasions:

    1. 1994, Parque del Retiro, Madrid. Gave 100 pesetas to a string quartet.

    2. Fall 1999, in Boston, a string quartet playing at the entrance to the Boylston subway station. I gave them $5.

    3. December 2001, in New York, a lone sax player on a very empty Broad Street in front of the NYSE. I gave him $5.

    4. Summer 2003, Battery Park, a lone sax player. I gave him $20.

    That’s it. Have never given anyone else money ever.

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