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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
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Land Artist
Landscape Architect
Printmaker
Sculptor
Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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