In 2018, I walked into a showroom in Shanghai and told myself I was going to buy a NIO. I didn't. Here is how that actually went. I put down a deposit. Then I found out I couldn't get a Chinese driver's license as a foreigner. So they returned my deposit. Not long after, I got pregnant again. And then, before I could sort the license out, COVID arrived and closed the door on all of it. Curveball, curveball, curveball. The plan I had been so sure of quietly came apart, one piece at a time. I...