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Sick girl has written 900 poems to beat the blues
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-02-16 08:59

A 10-year-old Shanghai girl who suffers with a rare disease has taken up poetry to beat those sickbed blues. Sun Xin was 17 months old when she contracted her illness, which causes her right leg to fracture frequently meaning she is often hospitalized.

But since she was 7 the youngster has used her time to explore her love of poetry - and has already written more than 900 poems.

To care for Sun Xin, her mother quit her teaching job and moved her family to the nearby countryside to create a better environment, giving her daughter the chance to mingle with nature and write more poems.

(Xinmin Evening News)