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Yeah, and then I wrote
letters to everybody.

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So I wrote them to my
grandmother, my grandfather.

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I wrote them to the
body, old teachers.

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And yeah, I think I will maybe
just read this three section--

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It's just a part of the
letter to my grandmother.

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"Today I found a
Certificate of Marriage

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and a translation of it by the
President Translation Service.

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The date is July 26, 1939.

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Now I know your name:
Miss Chang Chi-Yin.

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I also know you were
27, and grandfather 26.

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I wonder if this was considered
strange at the time, your being

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older than him.

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I now know you were
born on April 29, 1913.

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Seeing this date makes me cry.

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The tears are long and rusted.

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I have tried to
tie them together

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into a long string
toward your country.

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The farthest I've ever
made it was Kansas.

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The tornadoes always
break my tears.

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Dear grandmother,
I now know you're

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born in Chingwan
Hsien, Hopei Province.

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I google Hopei and see it is
in the North of China, where

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all the good doughy food
mother used to make comes from,

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the bao zi, jiao
zi, and shao bing.

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I can see how close you were
to Beijing and Mongolia."

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And then it keeps going
for a couple of pages.

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But that gives you a sense of
what's going on in that book.

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I keep going the wrong way.