as i was getting coffee today, i ran into the girl with the costume designer brother. i asked her how she was, and she replied that she was great, that yesterday she'd been taken out to dinner. i asked by who, and she replied "what is the english word for a man who is your brother's best friend, who you take as a brother and he takes you as his sister?" seriously. the girl with the costume designer brother. sister, where i come from, that's your brother's partner. but apparently its something they do in china, and i mean not just when your brother's gay, because they do have a word for it. i don't know, maybe i should ask someone else about it.