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on tet she goes against her mothers words and taps her big toe to the tile floor first.

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Every year she visits the I Ching Teller of Fate. And at this time the Ching Teller predicts their lives will twist inside out.

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He startals Ha by screaming Ha ya as he breaks wood and brick in imitation of bruce lee his idol.

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Hes the oldest and is studying engineering.

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He left on a navy mission on March 8th 1966 and was captured, hasn't returned

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On week days shes a secretary in a navy office.

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Weekends she takes ha to market stalls

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Mother took his hen's eggs and refuses to eat his and instead puts it under a lamp in hopes of a chick.

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She buys ninety-nine grams of pork, seven-eights of a bushel of spinach, four and three-quarter cubes of tofu. and the used the left over money to buy a pouch of roasted coconut, one sugary fried dough, and two crunchy mung bean cookies.

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He loved stewed eels, pate chaud patries and ofc his children.

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He hated the afternoon sun, the color brown, and cold rice.

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He said tuyet sut often that mean the right way

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For her birthday wish, she wished for her mothers eyes and to know more of her mothers girlhood in the north.

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she was raised in the north, was promised to father at 5 and was married at 16. Her and father moved down to the south to get away from the communists.

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She wishes for a sister to jump rope with and sew doll clothes with, as well has hug for warmth.

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Her and mothers go to the ceremony to just receive the 5 kilos of sugar, ten kilos of rice, and small jug of veg oil.

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when at the ceremony mother doesn't believe the president is "crying tears of an ugly fish"/ tears of a crocodile.

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Uncle son is fathers are best friends and the day he visits he finds the bypass to the navy checkpoint that leads to the port.

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Mother is faced with a decision to flee the country or to stay.

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Quange doesn't want to flee the country because it would be without honor and without dignity.

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He does not want to flee in worry that their father will return to his family gone.

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he want to leave so he can walk the same grounds as bruce lee once walked.

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Khoi convinces ha to agree to stay to protect her papaya tree and him his chicks.

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Tells the family that only navy families can board the ships and to not ell anyone of the ships.

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Her and father have a pact that if war separated them they were to find each other at fathers ancestral home.

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She used her pedaling sewing machine and makes five bags for them. When khoi says to only make three but mother convinces him to go.

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When packing to flee they have to choose 1 belonging to bring with them she chose her doll.

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He left his report card that ranked him first in his classes since kindergarten.

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He is leaving the cowboy leather belt he made at the time of his adoration for johnny cash.

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He left his rows of glass jars he used to raise fighting fish.

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she gets sea sick and the rocking of the boat when people were panicking.

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He began to teach English a week after getting on the ship.

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He teaches martial arts on the boat.

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He monitors the lines for the bathrooms for the ship

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He carried a chick before it was flattened and died and was rotting in his pocket

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She wrapped the dead baby chick and doll in her mothers white handkerchief and throws it to the water.

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she gets to experience what soda is and what I believe is candy as well as gum for the first time when rescuers from the US came.

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She experiences culture shock when seeing a man with ginger hair and beard even more when she kinds out what arm hair was and plucks one from a man who was helping her board another boat.

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They arrive in Guam and they lived in green tents, slept on cots, and ate inside of a large tent, only eat canned fruit and she prefers the cherries and grapes from the can.

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He becomes the head chef, heating up cans of beef and potatoes. He brings home a huge can to work out with.

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They watch movies from a projector that projects onto a white sheet.

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he translates into a microphone while the movie plays.

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he has girls who surround him and beg for him to break wood.

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he rarely speaks at all

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he sautes the beef and potatoes with onions and sprinkles what I assume is the magic fish sauce survey with rice. while at it someone catches a fish and slices it to small steps and stews it with seaweed and fish oil.

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She wants to sell the amethyst ring father gave to her and wants to buy needles and thread, fabric and sandals.

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He doesn't let her sell it because to him it is the last remnant of love/ the last thing they have from father.

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He says to come with him and his family to Canada.

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Mother denies his offer because he knew his wife would mind and instead she goes to write Paris but a man convinces her to go to America where the kids would have more opportunities.

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Theyre frown to Florida and had to wait at a camp for a sponsor.

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she learns that the sponsors prefer peoples applications that say Christian.

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He owns a store that sells cars and sponsored their family.

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They arrive in Alabama and the cowboy was very nice and they start to unpack until they meet his wife who was judgemental and they repack.

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Shes very judgemental and causes Kim ha and her family to feel unwelcomed and they repack.

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Because of the cowboys wife they are sleeping in the basement of the house.

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She insists they stay out of sight being embarrassed of them/judgemental.

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She tells them that they must master English and nothing more.

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He vowed to not ever eat anything with wings.

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He tries fried chicken for the first time and gags.

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I believe he's confused he's confused why they dislike the fried chicken he brought home for dinner.

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He forcibly swallowed and explained how they're used to fresh killed chicken to the cowboy.

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He gets them a house on princess Anne road.

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Since they had an address she sends a letter to the north to fathers brother to find out if they know he's alive.

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He takes Ha to go and get registered for school.

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We find out his real name is Mr. Johnston.

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she starts working at a sewing factory.

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He starts working as a mechanic.

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He wants to be a cook or to teach martial arts.

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He gets a bicycle that he later uses to get ha to and from school.

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She basically insulted ha by saying her name as if it was The fake laugh Ha-Ha-ha

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She gets her first school experience not knowing where to sit for lunch.

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His first interaction with ha was he plucked her arm hair and laughed at her.

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he and his friends end up following ha home

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She wakes up Vu and convinces him to teacher her defense.

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She makes ha read the alphabet and tells the class to clap and no one does and then makes her count and ha does count to 20 and the class laps itself.

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She wishes learning was easier and wishes her father would return.

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Because her and her family are different neighbor kids throw eggs and a bring at the house, the brick hit the window.

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when meeting their neighbors they come to find out they are racists except one women to the left.

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Her first impression toward ha and her family was happy and pleased throwing her hands up and hugging them.

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shes a widow and a retired teacher who volunteers to tutor the kids.

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He suggests getting baptized so the neighbors will accept them.

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She keeps hoping father returns and asks for a sign.

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he asks to be called Vu Lee under the impression of being like Bruce lee

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She helps ha expand her vocabulary with one day at a time.

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He liked to bring the family gifts. Out of the kindness of his heart? he brings mother a breathing catfish in which Vu Lee kills. that day they receive chips and chocolate

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Ha gives her contexts that she ate chocolate from the toilet making miss Washington panic. and eventually learns ha eats in the bathroom and packs ha lunch so she can eat in the class room.

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ha starts writing dates like the date saigon fell, and that this day was her most relived one.