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Once he arrived in the United States, immigration officials interrogated him at length.He passed the interrogation and was allowed to As a teenage boy, Wong writes, his days were spent working in the restaurant and studying for school.He lived in a room above the Pan-American Cafe.
He had little female nurturing.
"There were no Chinese women in the city of Wichita at that time," he writes.
"Not until after World War II, when the Chinese veterans brought their wives to Wichita to start their families and raise children.
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Until then the tiny Chinese community in Wichita was what we called a 'bachelor's society.'"
But many other Wichita residents befriended him - a girl who stayed ...
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