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Hiroshima Maidens

Sarah Shapiro is an American writer who recently described her recollections as a 5-year old member of the Hiroshima Maidens, a group of 25 young Japanese women who were brought to the United States for medical treatment following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports.

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