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Equally movingly portrayed is the fate of Japanese women, some as young as fifteen or sixteen, who were sent as promised brides to men they knew only through photographs that often were 10 or 15-years out of date, or were of some other younger man.

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So my mom abandoned us when I was sixteen years old.

CA: Sixteen years ago, you became employee number seven at SpaceX, and then over the next years, you somehow built a multi-billion-dollar relationship with NASA, despite the fact that SpaceX's first three launches blew up.

Sixteen years later, you'd probably say the opposite.

I think I must have read every single Mills & Boon romance published before I was sixteen.

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