An excerpt from River Town by Peter Hessler

"'She's the third in her family!' one of the women said.
'Oh,' I said. 'They must have paid a big fine.'
'No,' the woman said. 'Their house was tuile!'
'What?'
'Their house was tuile!'
'Tuile?'
'Right!'
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"The local planned-birth officials had pushed over the girl's house because she had been the third child."
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"The old women were shaking their heads and looking at the little girl. She wasn't comfortable hearing this conversation and something in her expression said: Sorry. Undoubtedly there were complications to growing up when you knew that your birth had caused your family's home to be knocked over. But there was also something else in her eyes; it was vague and undefined and meant, essentially: Some things are worth more than money and houses." -Peter Hessler