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Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Dreams
Comfortable
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Sometimes
Feels
Quilts
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