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Adeline Yen Mah was born with the name Yen Jun-Ling.
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Adeline's mother dies when giving birth to her.
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Adeline's father gets remarried to Niang, a seventeen-year-old from France.
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Niang has a baby boy, and names him Franklin.
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Niang has a baby girl names Susan.
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Adeline is put into a school in Tianjin, the city in China in which they live.
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Adeline's whole family moves from Tianjin to Shanghai.
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Adeline and her 4 older siblings are all starting at a new school in Shanghai.
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Adeline and her siblings recieve pet ducklings as a reward for finishing school. But Adeline's duckling gets attacked by the dog and dies.
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Adeline goes to her best friends birthday party. Niang doesn't like this and Adeline is grounded.
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Adeline gets into a lot of trouble for going to her friends birthday party without permission. Niang and her father make her move to Tianjin to go to a boarding school there.
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After a few months in Tianjin, her aunt comes to get her and take her to Hong Kong where the rest of her family is.
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Niang sends Adeline to a boarding school in Hong Kong. After just a few months, Adeline had skipped two grades and was at the top of her class.
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When Adeline got the news that her writing had been accepted as the winner, she ran and told her entire family. They finally accepted her into the family.
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After just a couple years at the boarding school, Adeline graduates at age 14.
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Adeline entered in one of her best writings and she won the world-wide writing competition.
