Engineer Loh Kok Onn, 76, grew up without his father, who died in a car accident in 1943 when he was barely a year old.
His absent parent had been a mystery to him. "When my mother spoke to people about him, she would cry. So I never tried to ask her about him. All I had were a few photos of him, and I knew his occupation, which was printed on my birth certificate."
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