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緣份

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There is this word 緣份 yuan fen in Chinese, which does not have a direct translation in English. It is a type of fate that brings people together. The saying goes that if you are fated together, then you will meet even when you are thousands of miles apart; without this fate, you could be face-to-face and not know each other.

Yuan fen is also

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