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This is our fifth story for the month of June 2022 issue 189.

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Our story is titled in Human Lovers, and is by Chen Chien.

Translated by Carmen Yuling Yang.

Chen Chien was born in Shanghai and works as a restore of historical relics.

Her books include a short story collection, the Prisoner of Memory, a YA novel, deep sea bus,

and a YA short story collection, sea sausage bus.

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Our translator, Carmen Yuling Yang, was born in China and raised in the United States.

Carmen was first driven to translation and high school by the pain of reading really good

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