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Tyler & China.

 While I'm here living in baby poop and vomit, Tyler is on a quick tour to China for her roopu. Here she is at the airport with Sister, Larelly and Alya.

She's the first of our lot to visit China. Their first stop was in Canton China, the birth place of my great-great-great-grandfather. He was an orphan playing along the river side and some sailors decided to take him with them. The story that I know is that they either named him after the river they got him from, which is Ahmu, or Ahmu means river in the local language. They took him as a child and he settled in Samoa as an adult. Either way .. that's our heritage.











I'd go there for the good eats.

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Me said…
That's so awesome that she's learning about your heritage, and also so unsurprisingly messed up that they just took your relative. #whitepeople
November 3, 2017 at 1:01 PM
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