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10/03/05

A Pair of Tickets

This story is about a young Lady that lives in California with her mother and Father. She

is however Chinese, and refuses to believe she is.

This story is both a mystery and a suspense with in a way a tragically happy ending. By

the end of this paper I will show how I come to this conclusion. First I will tell the story in my

own words in a shorter version.

The lady telling this story is in her thirties. Both her parents are from China, her mother

left China in 1944. Her mother was married to another man at the time and had two twin

daughters. She was trying to get to her husband who was stationed in another town in the

military. She had been walking for three days trying to get a ride but had no luck. First she left behind her two suitcases and then the food she was carrying. After that she tried very hard to

either get a ride or to have someone take her girls for her. She was forced however to leave......

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