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  • Birth of Adeline Yen Mah

    She was born Yay
  • Father's Remarriage to Niang

    Following Adeline's mother's death in childbirth, Adeline's Father remarries
  • Top Of The Class

    After a week at kindergarden, Adeline becomes the top of the class.
  • Nai Nai's Death

    Nai Nai dies of a massive stroke.
  • Adeline Moves To Shanghai

    Adeline, Big Sister, Big Brother and Second Brother moves to Shanghai. Little Sister, Third Brother, Ye Ye and Aunt Baba remain behind.
  • Adeline's New School At Shanghai

    Adeline begins her school at Sacred Heart School.
  • Family Reunion

    Little Sister, Third Brother, Aunt Baba and Ye Ye come to live in Shanghai. Little Sister causes a din.
  • Chinese New Year

    The 5 step children received traditional, old clothing while the other 2 children received stylish outfits.
  • Adeline's duckling, PLT

    Mr and Mrs Huang gave the 7 children one duckling each.
  • PLT's death

    Jackie, their dog, bit PLT, causing the duckling to die.
  • Big Sister's Wedding

    Father and Niang had asked Big Sister to marry Samuel.
  • Adeline secretly attending a birthday party

    Adeline attended her best friend's birthday party but unfortunately, got caught by Niang.
  • Class President

    Adeline and Chun-mei won the election together, beating Lei-lei, their rival, and 4 other nominated candidates. When Adeline went home, her friends visited her to congratulate her. Unfortunately, Father and Niang were home. Niang reprimanded and slapped her. Adeline had to tell her friends to go home. Her Father told her to throw away all the presents her friends gave her.
  • Adeline going to a boarding school in Tianjin

    When Adeline reached home after school on the 14th, she realised that she would be going to Tianjin the very next day. Father and Niang brought her to St Joseph's in Tianjin and left her there.
  • Adeline going to Hong Kong

    After spending Christmas and New Year in the school alone, Niang's older sister, Aunt Reine, and her family took Adeline to Hong Kong to be reuinted with her family.
  • Adeline attending a boarding school in Hong Kong

    On a Saturday afternoon. Niang took Adeline to Sacred Heart School and Orphanage, with Fourth Brother tagging along.
  • Adeline having Pneumonia

    The day after the last day of the term, Adeline vomited and coughed out blood. Her temperature shot up tp 104 degrees. She was taken to the hospital.
  • Adeline joining a Play-writing Competetion

    When Adeline recovered and went back to school, she had nothing to do as school had not started. She decided to join a writing competetion and worked very hard on it.
  • Ye Ye's funeral

    Adeline's chauffeur drove her to the Buddhist Temple for Ye Ye's funeral.
  • Adeline won the Play-writing Competition

    While Adeline and her friends were playing in school, Adeline's chauffeur came to take her as her father wanted to see her. She soon realised that she won the Play-writing Competition. Adeline's father was proud of her and wanted her to go to a medical school. She was very happy and agreed.