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"I shall always remember you in this life and in the next life. I will never forget you," said 95-year-old American David V. Plymire of his Chinese friends.

Though Plymire was born in the United States, the place he calls hometown is China's Huangyuan, where he spent 17 years of his childhood and later devoted decades to improving local health care and education.