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TIL about Gladys Aylward. a Christian missionary who traveled to the Chinese to Proselytize by helping at a inn and attempting to stop the tradition of foot binding. when the Japanese attacked she would lead 100 of the oprhaned children in her care to saftey away from the invading japanese on foot.

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