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Week of September 26, 2009

Missing Their Son
Author Kelsey Timmerman with Li Xin, who hasn't seen his parents in three years. Photo courtesy of Kelsey Timmerman.
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Many people from rural China have migrated to cities in the country's coastal provinces, in search of steady jobs. Travel writer Kelsey Timmerman met one such couple in the city of Guangzhou. Three years ago, they left their son with his grandparents, and haven't seen him since.

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