Li Fengying became a child bridewhen she was 12. In 1944, she moved to Hongjiang in order to escapefromwar. She has been making her living by sewingfor 20years.
With Delno and Ida working almost all the time, informal supervision of the kids fell to the Filipino warbride who lived across the street and the sharp-eyed Italian grandmothers who had raised their own children on South Elmwood Place.