Love Stories:

cataloguer: Robbyn Lanning

inscription: Left panel, left side: “I commented on how difficult it | seemed for some men of | Chinese ancestry to | consider Chinese | women as | beautiful, | or if | beautiful, | then as desirable. | Martin, whose wife is | of German descent, admitted | that he still had that problem.”
Left panel, right side: “Cornelio was surprised. In Hawaii | where he grew up, Asian were | always thought of as | more beautiful. | He said | this with a | certain sadness, | for although he was a | good-looking guy, it was never | Asians who found him attractive.”
Centre panel, left side: “The very | thought disgusted her. | Why would she ever want to | do anything like that she demanded. | Kissing one would be like kissing her | brother. And going out with | a Chinese guy would | feel, simply put, | incestuous.”
Centre panel, right side: “I caught her | staring at me. She | looked so Chinese to me, too. | I was surprised by the touch of her | skin – it was true, it was so smooth. So |was mine, she said. And after a while I | began to look at Asian women, | something that I never before | could bring myself | to do.”
Right panel, left side: “I asked about her preferences. | She said that although she didn’t | exactly prefer white men over | anybody else, they seemed | to gravitate towards her. | Besides, she couldn’t | find any other men | who could turn | her on in the | same way.”
Right panel, right side: “He was relatively open-minded, he | he said for someone who grew up in |Winnipeg 50 years ago. For | instance, he didn’t mind | his daughter going out | with anyone non-| Chinese, as | long as her | wasn’t |white.”