Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)
After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother t…
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