sentences:  She worked from 8 am to 3 am, charging five cents to comb hair or weave plaits and buns for amahs and Samsui women.She did that every day for almost three decades, interrupted only by periods when she was incapacitated by acute attacks of arthritis.She scrimped and saved, and by the time she was in her 40s, she had enough to buy a shophouse in Club Street.