"you're really a contradictory person. you're a positive person who is never overshadowed by your sadness. yet the depth of your sadness is so visible that i dare not imagine the weight of it. your personality and your history make a complementary imperfection. i wonder, how a little woman as young and tiny as you, can bear everything in the small shell of your body.

ivy i am curious and impressed. i look forward to being with you. you're an undiscovered dynastic tomb which excites the archaeologists. so enigmatic and yet so real. you're an onion. onion of the onion if you allow me to call you that."

just received a msn message from jenny. her description, with the eloquence of her language, intrigues me.