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My ancestry includes landowners, scholars, and government officials. I have six siblings. I am a citizen of the Republic of Korea. I come from a land of pear fields and streams, where people laugh loudly and honor their dead. Halfway around the world, I am someone else.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Jeong Trenka and her sister Carol were adopted by Frederick and Margaret Brauer and raised in the small, homogeneous town of Harlow, Minnesota--a place where the sky touches the earth in uninterrupted horizon . . . where stoicism is stamped into the bones of each generation. 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