Ancient Worlds
The Orient

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“I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world” A quote from Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl, on the threshold of adolescence, who developed leukemia from the effects of radiation caused by the bombing of Hiroshima. Sadako's best friend told her of an old Japanese legend which said that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. Sadako hoped that the gods would grant her a wish to get well so that she could run again. She started to work on the paper cranes and completed over 1000 before dying on October 25, 1955 at the age of twelve. "This baby (the Remington SL3 typewriter) speaks electric Shakespeare at the slightest provocation and will rap out a page and a half if you just look at it hard." -Tom Robbins