I, John Shen, was born in Nan Jing, China on May 23rd in 1953 during the Cultural Revolution. Things were very tough for me at the time because I had no rights whatsoever. As I approached my twenties, it was my dream and passion to start a new life in America, the land of opportunities. It was the one place everyone wanted to go to escape religious oppression and to live up to your personal potential. I finally had the one chance to go to the place of my dreams on the day of January 17th, 1987 to study at the University of California Berkeley.
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