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I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.

Lisa See

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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