My father came back and sat down with a sigh, and Nnamabia silently scratched at his bumpy face.

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My father had gone for his morning walk and came back just in time.

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But at that time, at age twelve, it meant succeeding on behalf of my father and making sure the one-armed man never came back again.

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And he went back to China, had a family, and so my father was also born in China, and came over as a teenager a few years later.

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