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Fair point, though there's no way that her site would have taken off without the misleading blurb. In an essentially culturally Confucian China, the task of naming a child is commonly relegated to the most senior/elderly person in the family, then education, then preference. No matter how well marketed the site may be, its doubtful it would have taken off if she stated her age honestly.


The thing is, she doesn't need to state her age, and she doesn't need to mislead people either.

There's plenty of alternative copy she could have used to give an air of respectability but didn't.




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