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Adeline was born and her mother died giving birth to her.
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Nai Nai fainted and was frothing in the mouth in the bathroom
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Father's Shanghai house was situated on Avenue Joffre, deep in the heart of the French Concession
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Her new school is Sacred Heart Primary School, starting from 1st Grade.
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Ye Ye, Aunt Baba, third brother and little sister arrived in Shanghai. There is a family reunion. Niang was now in charge of the family.
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Adeline's school was one and a half miles from home. She begged Ye Ye for money who gave her tram fare for school.
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Ye Ye spent all his money and he didn't have any to give to Adeline,
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On new year's eve, Father and Niand summoned Adeline and her siblings to the holy of holies and gave them their new clothes. Her brothers were disappointed with their identical loose-fitting Chinese long gowns and big Sister was handed a padded silk Chinese Qipao but Adeline got a brown smock, however, their step-siblings had western-style clothes which led to jealousy between two sets of siblings. And Adeline and her blood siblings decided to rebel.
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Adeline and her blood siblings gathered together to write an anonymous letter to Father, written in Chinese, to complain.
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Japan surrendered and World War 2 ended