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Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

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Maxine Hong Kingston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 27
Author
Novelist
Professor
Writer
Chinatown
Stockton
Maxine Ting Ting Hong
Bound
Bounds
Perhaps
Feet
Dangerous
Women

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