She bought a house at 10, and got started living the American dream

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Amy Sunderland poses for a portrait in a sauna overlooking her home in Millcreek on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. Sunderland grew up very poor, with dirt floors, no electricity and no running water in Hunan province, China. At age 9 she moved to the United States and lived with her father and another family in a shared one-bedroom apartment. She and her father both worked multiple jobs to work their way out of poverty and Sunderland is now a very successful portfolio manager at a financial firm. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

No, wait, there’s no way you’ve heard anything quite like this: it’s the story of a 9-year-old Chinese girl who 34 years ago arrived at the Salt Lake Airport malnourished, weighing no more than 50 pounds, counting the coat on her back, didn’t know a word of English, had zero money, and now, at 43, is ranked among the top 10 female investment managers in the country, in addition to owning and managing dozens of houses and apartments, and lives with her husband and their three children in a beautiful new home situated just below Mount Olympus with a panoramic view of the Salt Lake Valley.

All of it dating back to when she bought a house when she was 10…

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