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Prologue-Chapter 11

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Yip-Williams, Julie. The Unwinding of the Miracle. Random House, 2019. Hardcover.

• In the Prologue, Julie introduced herself as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend immigrant, cancer patient, lawyer, and writer.

• She knew she was dying, but she was still happy.

• Dying had taught her much about living and facing hard truths.

• In Chapter 1, Julie described how she was born to a poor Chinese family in January of 1976 in Tam Ky, South Vietnam.

• Julie was born blind, and her grandmother wanted her killed.

• Chapter 2 was a letter to Julie’s daughters, Mia and Isabelle.

• She told them the arrangements and information she was leaving behind for them.

• She knew that she needed to attempt to give them the words they would need to survive her death.

• She told them how her seventh-grade history teacher, Mrs. Olson...

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