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" #FormerEmpires that inflicted suffering, humiliation and disempowerment on others can and do become #ThrivingNationStates —if they examine their past, confront the injustices they wrought, and, ultimately, atone. #ConsiderFrance"

In 'Feeding Ghosts,' Tessa Hulls explores China's Cultural Revolution Hull's grandmother and mother were refugees from Communist China. Her grandmother had repeated mental breakdowns which caused Tessa's mother to be a caretaker from a very young age.

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