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Adeline won a prize in her kindergarten class. She was very proud and so was her father.
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When the Japenese started asking for Adeline's father, he left one day and never returned.
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Suddenly, Niand and her son left the family, they probably followed father.
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Suddenly, Nai Nai, Adeline's grandmother, died with no explanation.
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Six weeks after their grandmother's death, Adeline, two of her brothers, and her sister went to live in the house that their stepmom, father, and half-brother had lived in for a few months.
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Aunt Baba, Ye Ye, third brother, little sister move in with everyone else.
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After planning a way to get rid of Niang, Big Sister decided to betray her siblings and work with Niang.
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Adeline won every award in her class exept for art. She finally felt like she was worth something.
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Adeline received a pet such and named it pretty little treausure, or PLT. This duck became her closest friend
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The family wanted to test the dog's obedience, so they placed PLT in front of it. The dog bit the duck, and PLT died.
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Niang arranged a marriage between big Sister and a man twice her age. Adeline prided herself she wouldn't let this happen to her.
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On the plane, Adeline had to fill out papers for Adeline when he realized he didn't know her birthday. Since she didn't know it either, he gave her his birthday.
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Adeline was invited to her best friend's birthday party. Even though it was against Niang's rules, she went. When Niang's found out, she was punished.
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Adeline was elected class president democratically by her fellow peers. She felt like she was really worth something.
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Adeline's friends from school came to her house to congratulate her. Niang's got angry and slapped Adeline until her nose bled. Finally, Adeline's friends knew the truth.
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Niang's and Father dropped Adeline off at her old school, St. Joseph's. This became her new home.
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Adeline found out abut the war in Tianjin and how they are about to loose it to the communists.
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Nancy Chen, Adeline's only friend at her new school left with her mother.
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Around this time, everyone, besides the nuns, had left. Adeline was very lonely
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Adeline's Aunt Reine Schilling comes and takes her out of her school to go to Hong Kong.
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Adeline's aunt brings her back to her family in Hong Kong.
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Aunt Reine and her two children leave to go back to their home.
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Adeline's stepmother takes her to a boarding school right after Aunt Reine leaves.
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One of Adeline's peers felt sorry for her, so she anonymously left her an egg for breakfast.
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After everyone in the boarding school left for summer holiday, Adeline caught pneumonia.
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During the summer holidays, Adeline had lots of time on her hands. She entered a writing competition for any student in the world that spoke English.
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One day, a chauffeur came and picked up Adeline. Ye Ye had died.
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Adeline found out that she won the writing competition that she entered!
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After her father found out about the competition, he told Adeline she could go to England to study to be a doctor.
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After four years, Adeline relieved a letter from her aunt. In the letter, Aunt Baba told Adeline how proud she was of her. She also included the original story of a Chinese Cinderella.