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PROLOGUE
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
is based on the life of a real little girl who lived in Japan from 1943 to 1955.
She was in Hiroshima when the United States Air Force dropped an atom bomb on that city in an attempt to end World War II. Ten years later she died as a result of radiation from the bomb.
Her courage made Sadako a heroine to children in Japan. This is the story of Sadako.
