Summary Of Waiting Between The Trees

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Ying-Ying St. Clair - Waiting Between the Trees
The chapter starts off with Ying-Ying visiting Lena and her husband in their new home, which she thinks is overpriced and poorly built. Ying-Ying is able to see just how unhappy her daughter is in her marriage. Ying-Ying also went through a miserable marriage so she is able to relate to the kind of suffering that her daughter is going through. At her aunts wedding, when she was sixteen, Ying-Ying saw a man and knew that he would become her husband. He tried to attract Ying-Ying by cutting a watermelon down the middle with a knife. Soon enough, Ying-Ying married him. When he found out that she was going to be having a baby, he left her. Ying-Ying was so upset that she killed the baby before it was even born. Later in her life, while working in a shop, she met Clifford St. Clair. It was obvious that Clifford liked her but she didn’t feel the same way, but when the news came that her first husband has dead, it left an empty hole in her heart. To fill that hole she married Clifford and moved to America with him where she soon gave birth to...

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