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Woman reunited with family after 22 years, having fled over broken shower gel

A Chinese woman, Liu Xiuhong, has been reunited with her birth family after 22 years, having run away at the age of nine. She feared punishment for breaking a shower gel bottle, which was a significant expense for her rural family at the time. Found by an adoptive father, she was cared for and eventually, with the help of volunteers and police, located her birth parents in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province. AI

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Woman reunited with family after 22 years, having fled over broken shower gel

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Zoey Zhang ·

    Chinese woman reunites with family 22 years after running away over broken shower gel bottle

    A woman in eastern China has been reunited with her birth family 22 years after running away as a child, fearing punishment for breaking a bottle of shower gel. Liu Xiuhong, from a rural family in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, was nine years old when she moved with her migrant-worke…