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    Michiru Ōshima is a Japanese composer who has worked in video games, films, and television. The document then describes the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Sadako later developed leukemia from the radiation exposure. She tried to fold 1,000 origami cranes in hopes that an old Japanese legend would help make her dream of recovering from leukemia come true, but ultimately died at age 12 after folding 644 cranes.

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    Michiru Ōshima is a Japanese composer who has worked in video games, films, and television. The document then describes the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Sadako later developed leukemia from the radiation exposure. She tried to fold 1,000 origami cranes in hopes that an old Japanese legend would help make her dream of recovering from leukemia come true, but ultimately died at age 12 after folding 644 cranes.

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    Michiru Ōshima is a Japanese composer who has worked in video games, films, and television. The document then describes the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Sadako later developed leukemia from the radiation exposure. She tried to fold 1,000 origami cranes in hopes that an old Japanese legend would help make her dream of recovering from leukemia come true, but ultimately died at age 12 after folding 644 cranes.

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    A thousand paper cranes

    Michiru Ōshima
    is a Japanese composer who has worked on several video games, films, and
    televisions.
    Story of Sadako Sasaki
     ATOMIC BOMB IN JAPAN explode August 6 and August 9, 1945 which
    destroyed a whole generation of families, memories of peaceful lives and a
    haven for millions of people.
     survivors of the apocalypse were called the “Hibakusha,” literally, the
    “victims of the bomb.”
     a girl named Sadako Sasaki, who was born on January 7, 1943, was exposed
    to significant radiation, as she was 1.5 miles away from the bomb’s site
    when it exploded.
     Throughout the following decade, Sadako seemed to be a healthy girl.
     Later, she couldn’t stand up after falling backwards in her classroom.
     Red Cross hospital doctors had diagnosed a serious illness—leukemia, the
    disease that had already killed most of the survivors of the atomic bomb.
     Sadako’s best friend, Chizuko, brought her an origami that looked like a
    crane, and explained to her the legend of the 1,000 cranes.
     a person who can fold 1,000 origami cranes can make his or her dream
    come true
     Every day, she performed her folding task to put all her strength in this legend
    and to pray.
     Sadako died from her illness on October 25, 1955 at the age of 12, having
    folded a total of 644 cranes.

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