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Adeline father remarries to Niang, a seventeen-year-old from France.
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Adeline had a forth sibling but it was not her real sibling. It was her step sibling
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Adeline had a fitch sibling but it was not her real sibling. It was her step sibling
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Adeline tops the class in the first week of her kindergarten school.
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Adeline father disappered.
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Niang and 4th brother left home
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Nai Nai died of a massive stroke.
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Adeline went to Shanghai with her family. Her dad had actually been hiding there to protect himself from the Japanese.
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Adeline went to a school in Shaghai
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Adeline pet duck was given to her. But PLT died as the dog of the house ate it.
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Adeline oldest sister got married and shifted out.
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Adeline went to her friend's birthday party and was caught by her step mum, She was grounded.
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Adeline was norminated by her class to be class president. She was so chosen. Her friends were proud of her and decided to surprise her by following her and giving her presants. Niang found out that Adeline friends came over and Niang raged.
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Niang was so angry that her friends came over she decided to send Adeline to boarding school in Tianjin
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Students in the school starts leaving the country as the comunist was taking over. At this point of time Adeline learnt that she is abandon by her parents who did not come to pick her up from the school.
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Niang sister came and picked Adeline up from school.
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Adeline goes to boarding school in Hong Kong.
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Adeline enterd a play wrting competiton and to her surprise she came in first. Her father took notice of her finally for the first time. Her father than grants her wish of letting her study in England. She wants to study literature but her father insits on her studying medicine. The story ends here where she goes to England to study medicine realing her dream to become a writer.