Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school's running team, until thedizzy spells started and she was forced to face the hardest race of her lifethe race against time.