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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chines

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they be censored. We were a very insular little family. – Maya Lin

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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. – Maya Lin

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