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19 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Take a stroll through Chinatown, and you can’t help but notice certain fashionable seniors nonchalantly strolling the streets in head-to-toe looks. But who are they? Andria Lo and Valerie Luu set out to answer that question thecut.io/3d4ZFrB
Buck Chew, 96, San Francisco: Before he moved to the United States in 1983, Mr. Chew worked as an accountant and abacus master in Macau, though he considers himself a poet and calligrapher thecut.io/3d4ZFrB Image
Gui Zhi Li, 73, Manhattan: Prior to immigrating to the United States, Ms. Li worked as a park gardener in Hong Kong. She’s been in the United States for about five years but wants to go back to Guangzhou thecut.io/3d4ZFrB Image
Sui Chen Shen, 86, Vancouver: “I don’t really have a thought process. I wear whatever I feel like” thecut.io/3d4ZFrB Image
The Jungs, Los Angeles: Mr. Jung left Hong Kong to come to the United States first, and his wife joined him two years later in New York thecut.io/3d4ZFrB Image
Dorothy G. C. Quock, a.k.a. Polka Dot, San Francisco: On Mondays, Polka Dot receives a delivery from the food pantry. She keeps a list of her neighbors and ‘what they can eat or what they like to eat’ and distributes her bounty to them accordingly thecut.io/3d4ZFrB Image

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