
Immersive Remix: "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu
LeVar Burton Reads
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I Was a Ten Year Old Orphan in Hong Kong
I was a ten year old orphan, the on relative i had in the world was my uncle in hong kong. I snuck away one night and climbed on to a freight train going south,. A few days later, some men caught me stealing food from a field. They hid me in the bottom of a truck along with other girls, and smuggled us across the border. We were taken to a basement and told to stand up and look healthy and intelligent. The buyers families paid the warehouse a fee and came by to look us over and select one of us to adopt. Your poor grandmother, she couldn't take the abuse and threw herself down a well. Then some boys with hunting
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