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    Living the Dream

    Mar 10, 2022 4 minutes
    By Li Nan

    James Holt realized both his own and his grandmother’s long-cherished visions the day he got his visa stamp to come to China seven years ago.

    Holt’s grandma, Kay Engel, was a medic who wanted to go to China to help injured soldiers and civilians during World War II, but she was sent to Italy instead. “My grandma’s favorite food is Chinese, so she cooked Chinese food as much as she could to pretend that she was there,” Holt told Beijing Review.

    She taught her grandchildren how to use chopsticks to eat her Chinese dishes. “She made us click our chopsticks 100 times in a row

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