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when I look back on what the environment
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was that we lived in you wouldn't
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necessarily wish it upon your children
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but at the time it was exciting right
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like we were just these young kiwi kids
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with big goals big Ambitions big desires
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so man and I lived up in China so I was
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in China for 16 years living in China
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full-time I can safely say I would have
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been one of the only female white faces
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in hu so we didn't have friends we did
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not have people that you could anchor
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into or call or use as a mental ship it
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was literally match and myself our
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cousin Simon was over there as well it's
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hot it's sticky it's dirty it is
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fastpaced there's language barriers
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there's cultural nuances that you can't
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even start to understand and comprehend
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it's grounded in this resourcefulness
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and this desire to get ahead that you
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can't even appreciate or articulate
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unless you've lived in it and been part
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of it and the pace of innovation and
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change and and speed of Discovery is
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something that's unparalleled I was say
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we learned business the Chinese way and
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that was the greatest asset we could
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have ever received