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    ShoaKi Girl 10: The “Devil Dweebs”

    Out late sightseeing at a museum, it was long after dark before Lois returned to her apartment building. The street seemed changed, different, that night. Where it had been almost empty before, creepy and silent, there were currently shiny cars parked along both sides of...

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    ShoaKi Girl 9: Citizenship and Meili’s First Assignment

    Citizenship Finally, it was time for Lois to try to prove her citizenship. Not having any idea on how to go about it, she went to the Dallas Municipal Building first and, like in Mexico, was promptly arrested for being an illegal alien. She learned...

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    ShoaKi Girl 8: Dallas, Texas

    Two days later and early in the morning, Joe stopped the truck along a small business street on the outskirts of Dallas. “This is as far as I can take ya,” he told Lois. “I unload a few blocks from here an someone might say...

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    ShoaKi Girl 7: They Finally Reach the United States

    As they reached the other bank, another man pointed each family or group of individuals in a slightly different direction so that they didn’t leave one clear trail. As they dispersed into the night, the people disappeared from view. Lois was glad to at least...

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    ShoaKi Girl 6: The Long Auto Trip to the Border

    The miles went by slowly as they sped north on a one-lane dirt road. Jose’s car burped and coughed its resistance, with Lois holding on tightly to the dashboard to keep from slamming her head on the roof at every pothole. There appeared to be...

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    ShoaKi Girl 5: She Tries Again

    The girl found herself in the dark, a pale sliver of moon showing a barren landscape. She sat on a warm leather seat in the cab of the monster machine. Except for a small shed, she saw nothing except a bare stone surface extending out...

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    ShoaKi Girl 4: Lois Begins her Long Trip to the US

    A moment after beginning her journey, Lois looked out the door of the outdoor privy in Lanzhou.  Seeing she was alone, the girl went around to the front of the grocery store. Nobody had noticed her arrival. A city bus took her to a local...

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    ShoaKi Girl 3: Trouble in the City & Lois Decides to Go to America to Find a Job

    Trouble in the City “School’s getting too hard for me,” twelve-year-old Lois complained to her brother. “I think I’ll drop some of the fighting lessons.” She shook her head, eyes shifting toward the ground. “I don’t think I wanna be an assassin and go around...

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    ShoaKi Girl 2: The Children & The Village Changes

    The Children. John and Su Lin had two children, two years apart. They were a boy they named Samuel and then a girl named Lois—after John’s mother. “Honey,” John once told his wife, “we really must send them back to the States for an education. ...

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    ShoaKi Girl 1: The Village

    A lonely male Caucasian held on to a bare plank-seat as an oxcart driven by a wizened and bearded Chinese farmer, as it bounced over a rutted and overgrown dirt trail.  John Stone happened to be a Christian missionary recently assigned to a small village...

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