Chinese Cinderella: The true story of an Unwanted Daughter by Chezka Avellanoza

Chapter I: Top of the Class

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"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearta forever."

-Unknown

Chapter II: A Tianjin

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"Besides a room, we came to share a life apart from the rest of our family."

-Adeline Yen Mah

Chapter III: Nai Nai's Bound Feet

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"And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age."

-Lisa See

Chapter XIV: Class President

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"Let her study! She won't dissapoint you. When youve reached my age, you know which children are weak and which are strong. Don't ask her to may questions. Don't criticize her or tear her down. I don't want her to grow upnlike big sister. She is going to be different."

- Ye Ye

Chapter XIII: A Birthday Party

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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything ."

- Mark Twain

Chapter XII: Big Sister's Wedding

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"A Sister is both your mirror and your opposite."

-Elizabeth Fishel

Chapter XVI: Hongkong

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"You may be right in believing theat if you study hard, one day you might become fluent i English. But you still look Chinese, and when people meet you, theyll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. You'll always be expected to know Chinese and if you don't, I'm afraid they will not respect you as much."

-Ye Ye

Chapter X: Shangai's School Day

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"We all live in our big house and it's full of people, but it's a lonely place."

- Adeline Yen Mah

Chapter XV: Boarding School in Tianjin

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"Don't forget me."

- Adeline Yen Mah

Chapter V: Arrival in Shanghai

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"To her, we are not seperate people. Here we have become one single unit known as all of you. Seems like this is how it's going to be from now on."

-Big Brother

Chapter XI: PLT

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"I had started feeling better immediately. Knowing there was someone who cared for and believed in me, had revived my spirits."

-Adeline Yen Mah

Chapter VII: Family Re

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"Expert say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?"

-Rosea

Chapter IV: Life in Tianjin

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Grandmother-

The mother of your father or mother; a combination of warmth and kindness, laughter and love; a person who overlooks your fault, praises your every success and encourage you

Chapter IX: Chinese New Year

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"I should just go to school everyday and carry inside me this dreadful loneliness, a secret I could never share. Otherwise father and Niang would come to love me."

- Adeline Yen Mah

Chapter VI: First Day at Shool

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"With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there's obviously nobody looking for me. I'll just have to find my own way."

-Adeline Yen Mah

Chapter VIII: Tram Fare

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"The only people I owe my loyalty to are who never made me question theirs."

-Unknown

Chapter XVII: Boarding School in Hongkong

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"It's bound to get better. One day things will be different. Life wont't go o like this forever. I don't know when how or what, but i'll come back and rescue you from this. I promise."

-Adeline Yen Mah

Chapter XVIII: Miserable Sunday

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"Be miserable, or motive yourself. Whatever has to be done, its always your choice."

-Wayne Dyer

Chapter XIX: End of Term

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Serendipity

-a discovery by accident of things which one is not in search of.

Chapter XX: Pnemonia

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When I go back to school. I'll try even harder. And if i should be so lucky as to succeed oneday it'll be because you believed in me ."

-Adeline Yen Mah

Chapter XXI: Playwriting Competition

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"Look at it this way. Anyone who enters has a chance. However, if you don't enter then certainly will have destroyed your chance before you even begin.

First you must believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. Remember the old adage: genius is ten percent inspiration, ninety percent perspiration."

-Mother Loisa

Chapter XXII: Letter from Aunt Baba

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"Create your own destiny."

-Adeline Yen Mah