'Beautiful Country' looks back on a young Chinese girl's undocumented childhood
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Ia, I Feel the Need to Ask About Your Father, Baba
Ia, i feel the need to ask about your father, baba. And chinese you have grown to understand him. Help me. My father, i think, would have been very different if we had stayed in china. But from one of my first days here, he told me, i no longer have status as a man by virtue of agenjus ms. Justina's being weak, he had to find some sense of control and power in his household and the two women that he lived with. And it drove him to do some things that were, i Think, probably not even understandable from his point of view.
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