《Gender》

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    Paper Doll Seeks Child

    Have you heard of the paper doll for seeking a child?

    It has a baby girl's body, bamboo as bones, and paper as clothing.

    Bamboo strips cross the baby's body, white paper covering the whole body, forming a paper doll, with eyes drawn on.

    Then it is thrown into the fire and burned, and the baby girl dies.

    The next pregnancy will be a baby boy.

    My sister-in-law's first pregnancy was a baby girl,

    My mother held bamboo strips, staring straight at the newborn baby girl.

    I knew, my sister-in-law would give birth to a baby boy in the next pregnancy.
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