She Went Through Hell, but It Didn’t Break HerShe Went Through Hell, but It Didn’t Break Her
Gong Xiaoyan and her mother, Sun Dongxia, escaped persecution in China to start a new life in Otisville, N.Y., on Aug. 31, 2025. Petr Svab/The Epoch Times

She Went Through Hell, but It Didn’t Break Her

How decades of persecution in China shattered her family.
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The phone rang. It was cold that morning in Binzhou, just off the Bohai Bay in northeastern China. Two days before the Lunar New Year, it was time for families to come together. But Qi Guanmei couldn’t expect her daughter to visit. Not for a long time.

She picked up the phone.

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