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This is an amazing true story of a little girl, born in secret to a distinguished family in China in 1932, who is gathered into the family by her famous father when he learns that her mother has borne their seventh child. Fleeing from the invading Japanese during the war years, Sue-ning Chu Barry tells of seeing fighter planes strafing and
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