The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.

The strange man with the large head spooked me out so much until I realized it was only a picture.

It embarrassed Glover that when his wife coffee’d with a neighbor in the kitchen she had to leave the oven going with the door open to keep the place livable.

“Does that mean we have to go out in those small boats?” he asked of Sherwood […] . “Nothing less! But buck up, old man, and don’t go batchy, as these whalers call it!”