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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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The orphanage was an abandoned monastery near Dragon Bone Hill, a hard climb up a zigzag road from the railway station.†
Chpt 2.4 *
Two foreign and ten Chinese scientists lived in the north end of the monastery compound, and they ate their morning and evening meals in the temple hall with us.†
Chpt 2.4
I finally heard in the market last week that the quarries at Dragon Blue Hill were becoming busy again, and that the American and Chinese scientists were living in the old monastery, along with the students of the orphanage.†
Chpt 2.4
Of course, by then even the gods in the monastery had changed their minds.†
Chpt 2.4
And there were many, many statues, both Buddhist and Taoist, because the monastery had been occupied by both kinds of monks in different centuries, depending on which warlord was in charge of the land.†
Chpt 2.4
Twenty-six of the local workers stayed, as did Kai Jing, Dong, and Chao, who also lived on the former monastery grounds.†
Chpt 2.5
Soon there were fifty flags waving along the outside wall of the old monastery building, then a hundred, two hundred.†
Chpt 2.6
The old monastery is gone.†
Chpt 2.6

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