Temple of the Eight Immortals (continuation)

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Karen was impressed with this restroom.  Squat toilet, yes, but clean and fresh-smelling.  Interestingly, the Chinese women I've talked to consider a public Western toilet to be really filthy and they would rather stand in line for a squat toilet than use the Western handicapped toilet.

Think about it.

#8: HO HSIEN-KU     Called the Immortal Maiden.  In a vision she was instructed that if she ate mother-of-pearl she would gradually become immortal.  She lived in the mountains and become more and more ethereal, floating from peak to peak.  At last, dispensing with earthly food, she attained her quest.  Her symbol is the lotus, the flower of open-heartedness.  She is a patron of female Taoists.

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