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"A clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just turned her head to chat with the girl at the next desk..."
"Miss Sasaki is in her early twenties and lives with her parents and young sibling at the time of the blast. Her left leg is severely injured when bookshelves fall on her from the impact of the bomb. She is taken outside the building of the East Asia Tin Works, and when a rainstorm starts she is left in a lean-to with 2 other severely hurt people. Eventually her friends come along and take her away to a hospital where they think they have to amputate. She goes to another, larger hospital where they decide amputation is not needed, and they ship her back to Hiroshima to the Red Cross Clinic where she is treated by Dr. Sasaki, who takes special care of her due to the kinship sparked by the shared name. The infection in her leg refuses to go away until she has a talk one day with Father Kleinsorge who inspired her to recover. Her infection went away, and although she was left crippled, she has a strong spirit, and overcomes her hardships to become a Catholic nun who is very active in helping orphaned children."
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