Looking back at the past few months of my life, I sometimes stop and wonder - did all that surrealness really happen to us? I look back at the blog and at an immense archive of unsorted pictures from Taiwan and I am reminded that - yes, it did happen. And it was real.

When we [...]

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I wrote this piece when I was still in Africa shortly after The Language of the Heart and Listen to Your Heart. This was before I had any idea of the long journey that awaited us. The words that came to my heart then have stayed with me ever since.

THE CLAIM
You claim pain, and pain [...]

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Every once in a while, we turn a chapter in our lives.

Although we always know where we came from, we won’t always know what’s ahead.

Will there be peace or stormy waters? I really can’t tell. What I do know however is that in the constant fight of good and evil, light always wins.

This may be [...]

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During the past few days, we have received emails and calls from various people connected to Joy (Tang-Wei) Tang. They have accused us of waging war against them and of harassing their network. Jeff Buderer (Director of Operations of OVF in California) in particular has been very upset about certain facts being revealed about his [...]

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Joy, we last met you at the hideout where you had taken our father to keep him out of reach of the people who love him deeply. You were wearing the Jade bracelet that our father gave you on his first visit to Taiwan (at a time when he also gave you a new pair [...]

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On Monday night, when we had our crisis meeting with Joy, she agreed that the best thing for my father would be to board the plane back to Europe and resolve the numerous things that have gone wrong in his life during the past six weeks. Her promise however did not hold much, as the [...]

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Arne Garvi in Germany, February 2010
Prior to meeting Joy, my father (a declared pacifist since his teenage years who refused to carry weapons during his military service) had never resorted to violence, nor been the victim of any physical abuse.
About a month ago, upon his return from his first visit with Joy in Taiwan, my [...]

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For all my life, I have known my father as an alert driver, with whom I have always felt very safe as a passenger. He would never drive recklessly, as he taught me to have respect for traffic, and taught me more generally in life, that risks should be taken for causes that are worthy [...]

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Dad, do you remember?
Two years ago on Monday you called me from Sweden at 5 am Niger time, to tell me that my mother had drawn her last breath. My heart panicked and I asked you, are you sure? Are you really, really sure she’s gone?

You were so brave. You strengthened me. You asked nothing [...]

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Dear all,
We have been warned. A message arrived this morning, stating that “not everybody who cares for Joy is as kind and compassionate as she”, and that unless we enjoy hanging out with “gangsters”, we will not like to know the people we are messing with, whom according to the message, neither we nor my [...]

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Everywhere I’ve been this past week, I’ve seen snow. Beautiful white snow. It is the kind that adults talk about and children dream about. Pure white snow.

Inbetween the beautiful and the pure, there are spots of tainted snow. It is the kind that adults accept with time, but which children can never dream about.
The best [...]

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On Monday last week, my world took a sinister turn. I was on horseback when my father called me from Taiwan to tell me that he was getting married and that I could not inform anyone else about this for the time being. The woman in question is a new friend he met only two [...]

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