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Name: Sachiko means happiness
Author: Kimiko Sakai

📘 Sachiko means happiness by Kimiko Sakai

Although at first five-year-old Sachiko is upset when her grandmother no longer recognizes her, she grows to understand that they can still be happy together.

First publish date: 1990

Authors: Kimiko Sakai

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