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When Tenten was a young girl in China, her mother passed away leaving her father, a construction worker, to take care of their only child. As a result, she spent most of her youth growing up on different work sites. Her father was predominately a metal worker and he taught her from a young age how to use his tools to forge different items. At first, she used this to help him with his work and then progressed to making small weapons.

Her father wasn’t a rich man and he knew that getting her into a good school would be difficult. Even though she was a master of math and physics, her grades weren’t good enough to qualify for academic scholarship. At age 14, he asked his friend, a master of Kung Fu, to take her in as a student. She excelled at this sport, winning several Chinese tournaments and attracting the attention of a school in Beijing. She left her father in their small village and began studying there, splitting her time between martial arts and school.

To make some spare cash, she had numerous side jobs, including working as a coffee waitress. One day, a local architect saw her doodling some ideas on how to better design a coffee shop and after a couple of hours talking, offered her an internship at his firm.

When she graduated school, he pulled a few strings and got her a spot at a prestigious Japan university where she could finish out her studies in architecture. She continues to work odd jobs in order to support herself and recently found a dojo that might give her a place to practice in Japan.

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