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TIL that Kaoru Otsuki was a Japanese woman known for being the second, child wife of Sun Yat-sen, the founder and first president of the Republic of China. Sun asked Kaoru's father for permission to marry his daughter, but Kaoru's father refused because of the great age difference between them

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