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Modern day Saïgon/Ho Chi Minh city at nighttime

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Saïgon city was the former capital of South Vietnam. However North Vietnam had captured the area thus winning the war. they renamed Ho Chi Minh city. to honor former president Hồ Chí Minh, who had died 6 years before.

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Sentence: We squeeze ourselves out of the market toward the presidential palace. pg34

Definition: Having a bearing or demeanor befitting a president; dignified and confident.

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"i the youngest"

page 26

one that is the least old. especially : the youngest child or member of a family

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Bella West: Like glue in texture: sticky (Oxford Languages)

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Milo:

Definition - A display a frustration or sadness

Example - But last night I pouted when mother insisted one of my brothers must rise first".

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Milo:

Definition - Full of rebuke; critical.

Example - pg. 30 "Wish mother would stop chiding me to stay calm, which makes it worse".

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a way of organizing a country where the government controls almost everything, like factories and land, so everyone shares the wealth

Mother and Father came south convinced it would be easier to breath away from communism

pg 28

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(of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age.

Who can go against a mother who has become gaunt as bark raising four children

pg 54

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Aidan-Definition: A tropical fruit that can be grown in Vietnam.

Sentence: "My biggest papaya is light yellow, still flecked with green." (pg. 60)

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Aidan-Definition: A Vietnamese currency.

Sentence: "Last September she would give me 50 dong to buy 100 grams of pork, a bushel of water spinach, 5 cubes of tofu." (pg. 19)