When I profiled Li in 2008, I was struck, as people usually are, by his weirdness, and then surprised to discover that he was accompanied off-stage by an exceedingly normal wife: Kim Lee, a tall brunette from Florida who had met him on a business trip to China.
Let me throw out a radical thought: perhaps these prayers for safety, these thrills at Obama's articulation, these hosannas to his smile and his beautiful, normal wife are a sanctioned, politically correct form of racism.
You know, looking after my family, cooking, things like that because I was told I had to get off my feet, I wasn't allowed to walk… So my life sort of just, you know, from being a normal mother, wife and that, running around and doing my thing, to doing nothing at all".
He preferred going to his "normal" wife than being with me who leaked a lot of fluid during intercourse.
Any normal wife, he thought, would have been aghast to learn of her husband's long-standing adultery.
So for heaven's sake, start your own club, or join one, like normal wives.
"I don't think a normal husband and wife could pull it off," Mr. Bellomo said.
It's no different than any marriage: during the week you're just so busy, but it's like on Sunday there's more room in my mind, there's time to have a normal husband-and-wife conversation.
He retreats from time to time to his villa on Lake Maggiore to live "a normal life" with his wife Lucia, and "to dream - it helps your insight if you don't stop dreaming".
