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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
Yao Ming
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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
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Ivory
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