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 | | Li Jingsheng's birth transpired without a hitch, was so uneventful that the doctor and nurse in attendance might as well have been elsewhere. |
 | | When Li Jingsheng finally understood his feelings of disappointment, he realized that the gesture--a hand raised to the future--had already been claimed: it belonged to every statue of Chairman Mao, large or small, concrete or stone, in every public square, large or small, in every town and city in the nation. |
 | | Li Zihen, the eldest daughter of Li Sangong, was twenty-four that New Year's season, an age well past the time when a girl should leave home and well beyond the limits of her cousin Li Naijing's tolerance. |
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