She hoped to run the Great North Run before becoming pregnant, but she has now passed that job to her boyfriend.

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Xiaofen, a young legal secretary in the boom town of Zigong, hears bitter and desperate clients recount their tales of personal and commercial woe, but she has problems of her own: her live-in boyfriend is a drunk and a gambler whose chronic debt and jealous anger make her life hell.

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In the programme, Hayley's boyfriend Roy proposed to her - but she had to tell him marriage would be illegal because she has undergone a sex change.

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