Sadako Sasaki
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"Sadako Sasaki"/??? ??/Sasaki Sadako/January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955}} was a Japanese people/Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki/dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home next to the Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. Sadako is remembered through the story of a thousand origami cranes before her death, and is to this day a symbol of innocent victims of war.

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She was told, if she folded 1,000 paper cranes the gods would grant her wish, she wished to get well, ... She ended up folding 644 cranes before she died.

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