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THE WANDERING DONKEY “Let me carry those bags for you, Mama Mu.” Mama Mu glanced at her slight companion with a baby strapped to her back. “San-nu, I may be 15 years your senior, but I’m not old and feeble.” Laughing, she stretched her ample arms out wide, almost hitting a man walking in the opposite direction. He ducked just in time. They walked amongst other holiday travelers on the undulating trail, which threaded the villages in eastern Zhejiang province together. “No, no. I didn’t mean you were weak, but you saved me and my baby. If i...
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