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It depends. You can always make a U turn. As in “Boulevard” the movie starred aptly by Robin Williams (coming out). Or learning a foreign language upon retirement? A bit late (for full fluency). One sure thing: it’s never too late to start a healthier diet https://time.com/6209652/how-to-lower-your-cholesterol-naturally/ We operate on different clocks: internal and external.…
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The majority of South Vietnam intellectuals and elites have passed. Been 47 years. If survived at all, their memoirs would be full of selective and misplaced details. Sold at an ethnic bookstore near you e.g. Bolsa or Bellaire (CA or TX). Few, but not many, books were meticulously referenced with footnotes, endnotes etc… I either…
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Depends on which search results, one may find between 660,000 to 1 million IDP’s emigrated from North to South VN per 1954 Geneva accords’ Operation Passage to Freedom, which allowed for a 300-days grace period. IDP’s could resettle in the region of their own choosing ( stoke by rumors about a certain slaughtering of Northern…
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Wish I were her, pushing that cart, her whole possession for the journey: across the campus, down to University Boulevard and Main St. Weekend hangouts, the Corner Room and the alley (where I used to listen to WXLR soft rock). At the Student Union Building, during Orientation, various student organizations are out to recruit. Then…
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By now, a year after Kabul, we come across news about the Taliban and Afghan women left behind. Adventurous folks would dine at one of the ethnic restaurants in multi-ethnic neighbourhood, many of which gentrified. Like the Cuban before them, the Vietnamese and Korean. Out of curiosity or nostalgia. It’s almost as if you could…
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An accident by birth (born not in the USA). Then proceeded stoically to make it first in a series of self-degradation and self-victimizing: environmental pollution and problem. Culprit? China and the US of A. The latter played the China Card. The former Russia’s five decades later. Zhou Enlai with his “loss leader” banquet to greet…
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While her organs were still warm, experts already are on the lookout for their use. Viable organ donor. Medical good-will. Such a well-lived and well-died life, benefiting human society to the last breath. Maxwell House society. Organ donors’ society. Let’s give and good to the last drop. From blood to kidney, books to clothes. Can’t…
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Before I, they. The four adults. Now two left, both in their early 80’s. Back in 1954, when the OSS and Colonial French bosses were in charge, my brother and sister, both late teens, were eager to emigrate to South of the new DMZ. Their trip was orchestrated for re-districting and motivated partly by land…
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They came, lived and died. The long and short of it. In between, a lot of melodrama. From de-colonizing to the Unthinkable (Republic of S Vietnam flag atop the US Capitol). The ghosts of yesterday war. Forever haunting the airbnb “hotel” clusters (who else and how else can one live in Orange County on a…
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Pretty soon, we can show-and-tell in Meta verse, turning Self into Brand. From selling of a consumer category – industrial revolution with excess supplies- that bleeds into the selling of a Congressional candidate (red vs blue tie) to self-branding both professional and personal (Hollywood casting call automated as “What’s on your mind” on fb). The…
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