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Cute China girl, 2, thinks on-duty border guard father lives inside surveillance camera

  • Toddler frequently asks dad who works at dangerous border crossing point heartbreaking question, ‘When will you be back?’

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A little girl in China talks to her working-away father so often by camera that she thinks he actually lives inside the device. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Fran Luin Beijing

The story of a two-year-old girl in China who thought her border-guard father lived inside a surveillance camera has triggered an emotional reaction on mainland social media.

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For about 300 days a year, Xuanxuan, who lives with her mother in central China’s Henan province, cannot be with her father, Wan Xuelong, because he is on duty in Yunnan province. southwestern China.

Instead, she talks to him through the surveillance camera installed in the yard of their rural home, which has a speaker and microphone.

Xuanxuan has become accustomed to talking to her father every day via the camera.

In video footage filmed by her mother, Xuanxuan can be seen running towards the camera shouting “daddy”, and telling him she wants a gift of the character Princess Elsa from the Disney film Frozen for her birthday.

The girl hardly ever sees her father because he works so far away from home. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
The girl hardly ever sees her father because he works so far away from home. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

On another day, Wan asks her via the camera, if her cough is better, and if she is afraid of needles. She answers “yes” to both questions.

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