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      • AQ: "Have I been busy"
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      • Wally: "Don't change"
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      • Mom: "My 'fashion plate'"
      • LQ: "Who'd 've understood?"
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      • Mom: "That 'gleam and glow'"
      • Mom: "So proud of you"
      • AQ: "Poor guy/Fast Casanova"
      • LQ: "Free coaching"
      • Mom: "Simply heartbroken"
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      • LQ: "Men!!"
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      • Mom: "Keep it to yourselves"
      • LQ: "Bitter today"
      • LQ: "Your future brother-in-law"
      • LQ: "To the convent"
      • Dad: "A definite idea"
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more about lily


Honolulu to Nanjing

Lily was born in Hawaii, but raised in Nanjing, where she attended the well-regarded Ginling Academy for college.  Her father – Dr. Ho En Seong – became a dentist in Hawaii and moved his family to Nanjing in the early 1900s a few years after Lily’s birth.  She was the oldest of seven children, one of whom died before the age of two.  The Ho siblings were:
  • 1. Lily
  • 2. Ivy
  • [Gideon died before the age of two]
  • 3. David
  • 4. Guy
  • 5. Ernest
  • 6. Doris

Ho Family members in hawaii

Dr. Ho’s siblings in Hawaii include:
  • S.K. (Sue Kong) Ho (a.k.a Uncle Kong?), who is in poor health (wife Alice, son Dickie and daughter Phyllis, about to be married in Los Angeles); 
  • Lucy; 
  • Mrs. Chin Ho?; 
  • plus Ben, son of sister Ella Ho Soong?