A tour with Alixin at the Changsha Zoo in fall 2010. 

It may seem like a trivial matter, but I will never forget the day on the verge of death Alixin took me to the zoo.

The little attention to taking a sick person to the zoo was something engraved in my memory as our first date, which unfortunately was not as romantic as it should have been. While the picture was taken in the fall of 2010, I was after chemotherapy and on the verge of death. We're always joking that I should have offered her marriage then; today, we had an 11-year-old girl.