She admitted that she got married the first time only to escape from being forced to live in a group home for children without parents.
VOA: special.2009.12.06
"You realize the name of the game is to escape pollution and live near a green space, " said Amy Wood, an American ex-pat who has been living in Asia for seven years.
He wants to live forever, have the option to escape to outer space or an oceanic city-state, and play chess against a robot that can discuss Tolkien, because these were the fantasies that filled his childhood imagination.