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GRACE XUE never wanted to speak of her past. She spent many years trying to forget it.
Then she saw an image of her father, Nai Xin Xue, and a little girl lost at a Melbourne railway station. Xue had abandoned his elder daughter in Auckland when she was 19 and could not speak English.
When she saw the footage Ms Xue did not know the little girl was her half-sister, Qian Xun Xue. She did not even know she had a sister.
Then she saw the image of her father. I don\'t know how to describe how I felt, she said.
Xue is suspected of murdering Qian Xun\'s mother, Anan Liu, whose body was found in the family\'s car on Wednesday.
An international search for him, centred on Los Angeles, is under way.
Ms Xue said she had been thinking about seeking custody of her sister.
Ms Liu\'s mother, Liu Xiao Ping, is set to travel to New Zealand from China and may also have to visit Australia as she is expected to seek custody of her granddaughter, who is in the care of the Victorian Department of Human Services.
I was devastated, Ms Xue said of seeing the image of her father. The first thing that came to me was the little girl because similar things have happened to me before.
He had abandoned both his daughters in foreign countries, Qian Xun in Melbourne last Saturday and Ms Xue in Auckland, in 1999. Both times he went to Los Angeles.
Ms Xue had been in New Zealand for less than two months when she was abandoned - after her father had sponsored her to come from China and live with him. He did
not say where he was going or when he would return.
Unwelcome in the home of one of her father\'s friends, she struggled, working at fast-food restaurants.
Months after he left, Ms Xue tracked him down, called him and asked for help. She said he refused; it was the last time she spoke to him.
I spent a couple of years crying, asking myself what have I done, why everybody can have love and parents but I can\'t.
I just didn\'t understand and I wanted to know what have I done to deserve that.
Ms Xue, now 27, grew up in China, her father weaving in and out of her life.
Her mother, who she does not want to identify, raised her in a cold home and they had a strained relationship.
Yet when Ms Xue found her feet in Auckland, she asked her mother to come too, so she could have a better life.
Things were going well for Ms Xue, she had put herself through a financial degree at the University of Auckland, met and fell in love with her partner, Shane, and they had a child together, Edward.
Ms Xue said she was scared of their father when she was a child and had suffered some abuse at his hands.
She described him as a self-centred man with no sense of responsibility.
She felt terribly sad for her half-sister after learning that the body found in the family\'s car had been identified as the girl\'s mother.
I was surprised at the way he left the little girl, but I\'m not surprised that he abandoned her, she told the New Zealand TV One program Close Up.
She said she wondered whether Qian Xun was experiencing the same emotions she had as a child and wanted to know how she could help her half-sister.
I just want to help, I would very much like to see her and introduce myself to her, to let her know there is somebody there …
She said she had considered Qian Xun\'s future and whether she should or could bring her into her own family but knew it was not simple.
She said she hoped her father was feeling guilty.
I guess people do things for different motives, she said. I\'m not sure I can forgive him.
She has joined lawyers and trustees to set up a public trust fund for Qian Xun.
A spokeswoman for the New Zealand Government said Qian Xun\'s maternal grandmother was expected to apply for custody when she arrived in New Zealand.
The Government had not heard of any plans for an application by the child\'s half-sister, the spokeswoman said.
Then she saw an image of her father, Nai Xin Xue, and a little girl lost at a Melbourne railway station. Xue had abandoned his elder daughter in Auckland when she was 19 and could not speak English.
When she saw the footage Ms Xue did not know the little girl was her half-sister, Qian Xun Xue. She did not even know she had a sister.
Then she saw the image of her father. I don\'t know how to describe how I felt, she said.
Xue is suspected of murdering Qian Xun\'s mother, Anan Liu, whose body was found in the family\'s car on Wednesday.
An international search for him, centred on Los Angeles, is under way.
Ms Xue said she had been thinking about seeking custody of her sister.
Ms Liu\'s mother, Liu Xiao Ping, is set to travel to New Zealand from China and may also have to visit Australia as she is expected to seek custody of her granddaughter, who is in the care of the Victorian Department of Human Services.
I was devastated, Ms Xue said of seeing the image of her father. The first thing that came to me was the little girl because similar things have happened to me before.
He had abandoned both his daughters in foreign countries, Qian Xun in Melbourne last Saturday and Ms Xue in Auckland, in 1999. Both times he went to Los Angeles.
Ms Xue had been in New Zealand for less than two months when she was abandoned - after her father had sponsored her to come from China and live with him. He did
not say where he was going or when he would return.
Unwelcome in the home of one of her father\'s friends, she struggled, working at fast-food restaurants.
Months after he left, Ms Xue tracked him down, called him and asked for help. She said he refused; it was the last time she spoke to him.
I spent a couple of years crying, asking myself what have I done, why everybody can have love and parents but I can\'t.
I just didn\'t understand and I wanted to know what have I done to deserve that.
Ms Xue, now 27, grew up in China, her father weaving in and out of her life.
Her mother, who she does not want to identify, raised her in a cold home and they had a strained relationship.
Yet when Ms Xue found her feet in Auckland, she asked her mother to come too, so she could have a better life.
Things were going well for Ms Xue, she had put herself through a financial degree at the University of Auckland, met and fell in love with her partner, Shane, and they had a child together, Edward.
Ms Xue said she was scared of their father when she was a child and had suffered some abuse at his hands.
She described him as a self-centred man with no sense of responsibility.
She felt terribly sad for her half-sister after learning that the body found in the family\'s car had been identified as the girl\'s mother.
I was surprised at the way he left the little girl, but I\'m not surprised that he abandoned her, she told the New Zealand TV One program Close Up.
She said she wondered whether Qian Xun was experiencing the same emotions she had as a child and wanted to know how she could help her half-sister.
I just want to help, I would very much like to see her and introduce myself to her, to let her know there is somebody there …
She said she had considered Qian Xun\'s future and whether she should or could bring her into her own family but knew it was not simple.
She said she hoped her father was feeling guilty.
I guess people do things for different motives, she said. I\'m not sure I can forgive him.
She has joined lawyers and trustees to set up a public trust fund for Qian Xun.
A spokeswoman for the New Zealand Government said Qian Xun\'s maternal grandmother was expected to apply for custody when she arrived in New Zealand.
The Government had not heard of any plans for an application by the child\'s half-sister, the spokeswoman said.
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