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<p>Miller receives her diploma in home economics from the Sarawak Prime Minister of Natural Resources. She taught home economics among the indigenous people of Borneo for five years before emigrating to America in the early 1970s. (Photo courtesy of Angela Raduk Miller)</p>

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'A girl of burning desire'
December 15, 2013 8 p.m.

'A girl of burning desire'

Eureka women’s book details tribal life in Borneo

Angela Miller knew of only one way to rise above the bleak existence of her indigenous tribe on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. She had to get an education.