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ndani kyema, My Story - Ray Moore 37

“And there was Ellen Collier. Our paths crossed occasionally, she was
so pretty, and I started to get really strong stirrings inside me when I
saw her. I wondered how she was growing up in her double
imprisonment. There she was, in the China Inland Mission School.
where, for the glory of God, those missionary parents deliberately
sent their children off “for education,” to be thoroughly indoctrinated
in total isolation with all their fundamentalist religiosity, not to see
them again for years, while the parents proselytized their religion to
the Chinese peasants in the far interior, beyond Japanese occupation.
unencumbered by their children. And now she was an inmate in
Weihsien. Ellen would smile at me with those gorgeous brown eyes
as we passed by, and I felt sorry for her.” (Published by General Store Publishing

House Ontario, Canada ISBN 1-897113-43-9)

In later years as I worked my way through many mental and emotional problems in
my own life, I found myself many times agreeing with his views.

Soon the small Prep School was allocated more permanent quarters in Block 23
where we stayed for the rest of the War.

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