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- Mia recalls that Bebe Chow, a young Chinese woman at the restaurant, left her baby at a fire station because she couldn’t care for her. When Mia tells Bebe about Mirabelle, Bebe calls the McCulloughs and goes to their home, but they call the police. Mia advises Bebe to go to the media with her story, and it begins to dominate the news.
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When she tells Mia about Mirabelle, Mia immediately thinks of Bebe Chow, a young Chinese woman she works with at the restaurant. A year earlier, Bebe had a baby girl but was abandoned by the baby’s father. Poor, jobless, and unable to care for her baby, Bebe left her at a fire station.
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Though Mia’s cardinal rule is to not get attached, she calls Bebe to inform her of her daughter’s whereabouts. Days later, Bebe arrives at Mia and Pearl’s house, hysterical. She says she went to the McCulloughs’ house to try and talk with them, only to be dragged away by police. Mia comforts Bebe, and implores her to “fight this fight.”
Mia knows that Bebe is now “desperate” to find her child, and Mia feels that Bebe is stable now. Though she has developed “one rule” of transient life, which is to never get attached or involved, Mia decides, after careful reflection upon her own close relationship with Pearl , to help Bebe.
Bebe confides in Mia about her missing child, expressing a desire to find her again. When Mia hears that the McCulloughs adopted a Chinese baby around the same time that Bebe left her child at the firehouse, she realizes that Mirabelle must be Bebe’s baby, May Ling.
Mrs. Richardson's friend Linda McCullough has adopted a Chinese American girl who happens to be the daughter abandoned by Mia Warren 's coworker Bebe. When Mia learns of the child's adoption and tells Bebe Chow, a custody battle ensues. Since Mia sides with Bebe, Mrs. Richardson decides to look into Mia's past.
