{"text":"We do not know if she collapsed because of overwhelming joy, extreme surprise, grave disappointment, or heavy anxiety that for the next months and years she would live with a human male, because in fact she had been honest when she told her girlfriends that she had given up on men, OR NONE OF THE ABOVE.","author":"Kyoko Yoshida","tags":["anthology","asian-literature","booksactually","disappointment","feelings","gold","gold-standard","ireadbooksactually","losing-hope","men","prose","short-stories","singapore-literature","surprise","women"],"id":6493,"author_id":"Kyoko+Yoshida"}