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TIL that in mid-19th-century New York, marriages between Chinese men and Irish women were incredibly common. The Irish immigrant community had a massive surplus of women (two for every man), while the Chinese community was overwhelmingly male, leading to frequent unions between the two groups.

Found an old article from 2005 after she passed. The circumstances were all too eerie given how young she was at the time of her death. I met her the summer before she passed away and got her to autog…

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