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The Chinese Wife

My mother told me that Dad, Eugene Nason Doherty, married a woman when he lived in China.  Her father sold her to him, and he married her in a “Chinese ceremony.”  She was about 13 or 14.  Dad was stationed near Peiping, (Beijing) China in 1945-1946. He left the young woman in China when he was shipped backed to the United States.  He went home to his wife, Helen Anderson Doherty, who he married...