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It is afternoon and I am playing hopscotch with my friends on the street in front of our apartme

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My oldest sister, Keav, is already beautiful at fourteen(13)

She is ugly. Would anyone believe that she was once a beautiful girl (95)

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Nothing looks like the way I remember it. The buildings are cahrred from fires adn their walls riddled wtih bullet holes. The streets are covered with litter and filled with cavernous potholes

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For what
we have a big apartment that houses every one comfortably our apartment is built like a train, narrow in the front with rooms extending one the sides.

Met bong
one day they will suffer as we are suffering now

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"We have a big apartment that houses everyone comfortably. Our apartment is built like a train, narrow in the front with rooms exten

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Ma and Geak were both killed and I was alone for the first time crying myself to sleep.(117)

They took my sister to a labor camp soon she died before Ma and Pa could get there.(210)

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"Already at 6 A.M. people in Phnom penh are rushing and bumping into each other." (1)
"Nothing looks like the way I remember it. The buildings are cahrred from fires adn their walls riddled wtih bullet holes. The streets are covered with litter and filled with cavernous potholes." (21

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"But they were in love"

"I have nobody. I am completely alone."

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Behind
My family lives on a third-floor apartment in the middle of Phnom Penh, so I am used to the traffic and the noise. (1)
My favorite way to get around with Ma is the cyclo because the driver can maneuver it in the heaviest traffic. (2)

Ahead
I will not become a hooker(Loung, 183)...No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine.(Pa, 183)

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Busy
"...I am used to traffic and noise" (1).

Revenge
"But, one day, they will suffer as we are suffering now" (119).

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Happy
"It is afternoon and I am playing hopscotch with my friends on the street in front of our apartment."(17)

Angry
"The water washes away the dirt, but it will never put out the fire of hate I have for the Khmer Rouge." (128)

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Ladylike
"Has the misfortune to like to gossip and argue to much." (13)
In The Night
"They come many more nights and take many others." (71)

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only what I want
" i'm full, can I go?" (6)

Only what we need
My stomach hurt so much I want to cut it open. (107)

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we have a family, nine in all..... (7)

you are nothing. You are an orphan. (183)

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"I'm full now can I go" (page 6).

"Ma, Geak still looks really sick... she needs meat" (page 146)

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"We have a big apartment that houses everyone comfortably. Our apartment is built like a train, narrow in the front with rooms extending out to the back." (7)

"Ma, we are starving to death. Many people are dying in the village. Yet the government trades our crops to buy guns to kill more people." (114)

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"Sitting on her lap I bounce and laugh as the driver pedals through the congested city streets" (2).
"My skin vibrates with hate and rage" (164).

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free
"unlike other children I do not have to do chores because of the maid"(15)
captive
"I am used to the long hours of labor"(179)

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Curiosity:
¨Where is America?¨(12)
Realization:
¨America is very far from Cambodia¨ (233)

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Free Will:
"I sneak into the kitchen prepared not to eat anything."  (6)
Restraint:
"I wanted more, I wanted to eat until I was full and worry about the punishment later." (90)

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Kim - "...he is small, agile, and quick on his feet". (13)

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Food Galore
"Street vendors push food carts piled with steamed dumplings, smoked beef teriyaki sticks, and roasted peanuts."(1)
Hunger
"Always the hunger pains are there, never ending, never leaving me."(80)

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Safe
" Children in colorful shirts and shorts kick soccer balls on side walks with their bare feet, ignoring the grunts and screams of the food cart owners." (pg.1)

Alone
"It is true that Geak is to young to leave, but I am not eight yet. I have nobody, I am completely alone." (pg.123)

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Scared:
"Pa, will we go home soon"?(29)

Confused:
"If we stay together we die together"(121)

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Together
"My family lives on a third-floor apartment in the middle of Phnom Penh" (1).

Torn Apart
"Now I no longer have to pretend to be an orphan" (154).