
Nailed into a boat: Escaping Mao’s China
Lives Less Ordinary
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I Clawed Into a Little Tunnel
Andrew had his exit vise from china, but he didn't have the paper work to get into hong kong. He travelled first to macao, at the time, a portuguese colony,. Then met up with smugglers to get him across the water to his final destination. So i remember being taken to a lotch and they were some dozen people there. I was the only child. There may be a couple of tinages. We sailed off in the night, and then during the day we were hiding between two small islands. And then when darkness came in the evening, suddenly the leader of the smuggling boat would shout everyone down the lower deck. "You are the
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