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It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

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How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

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It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

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It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

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Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

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I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

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My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

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I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: October 5th, 1959

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