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Elle's avatar

This is such a helpful guide!! I definitely would have to stop and pet all the stray kitties 🥰🥰 plus that guy in the white in those first few pics is a cutie 😉

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Catherine's avatar

hahaha, trust me, we were all thinking of you when we saw the kitties 😘

and I heard that guy in the white is dating a pretty pretty lady 🤭

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constanze price's avatar

This was such a relatable and helpful read, thank you for this thoughtful piece! I absolutely love: "Looking back, the Lord used every trip to Shanghai to chip away at my hardened heart, allowing me to fall in love with parts of me that I didn’t know needed a little more love." There's something to be said about our relationships to the most significant cities/towns in our lives, changing their shape as we warm up towards ourselves. Not to mention, it's so detail packed and has everything anyone needs to know when visiting Shanghai! Just stunning!

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Catherine's avatar

thank you for reading my friend! 🥹💕 and oooh I love this concept you mention, that we can have a relationship to cities/towns/places. I have never thought of like this! But having a relationship to a city is almost like with a person...we are both changing, and adjusting to one another, and affect/influence each other (to some degree)

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channey's avatar

The amount of detail you put into this post is incredible. The sweet pups, 1192 Street (so incredibly cool) and the Shanghai Film Park pics, stunning. Very much looking forward to all the delicious foods, thank you for sharing!

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Catherine's avatar

thank you friend, for the read 🥹 I was surprised at how much I loved the pups (I'm normally indifferent to animals?), but they were too cute and gorgeous to be left uncaptured this time!

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Hannah Rodriguez's avatar

Ah! I went to China (bounced around Tianjin, Beijing, and Dongguan mostly) in 2019 for a month for an internship I was involved in / to visit some friends from my church. I would love to go back.... I know I would appreciate a lot of aspects so much more now. And agh I miss all that food so much. Maybe one day I'll get to do another trip over there. :) This post is a beautiful love letter of sorts to this city. Excited to see the food guide soon!!!

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Catherine's avatar

what how cool is that!!! I love that you had the opportunity to experience those cities ❤️ and you're exactly right... It ended up being a love letter that I didn't even know I wanted to write 🥹

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