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"Kunlun's father … "He died?"

"No." His mother said sadly: "That man did not die, but after the business grew up, he married a woman twenty years younger than him and abandoned us. Do you know how hard it is for a single mother to raise a child in a big family in a bookscented land? How many relatives will have to bear the supercilious looks?

"Karakorum is everything to me