Virginia
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The old couple holding hands walking down the street. They looked at me, I at them. What did they see in me? Younger version of themselves? Old man looks at my life? I am a lot more like you? Should it be the other way around? What did I see in them? Grey and withered,…
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After transitioning from a French elementary school to a Vietnamese middle-school, on my first day of school, I saw “First learn respect, then learn literature”. My brother’s generation at the same school had been from the same mold (his classmates are still staying in touch). No wonder they showed up at my Mom’s funeral in a…
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While almost everyone in the US gathers around the traditional meal, here in Vietnam, some people come up with a way to marry tradition with technology: ancestor worship online. Its highway to eternity has 10,000 plots, already booked for burial and continued ceremonial service online (to accommodate overseas relatives and those who have resettled to urban…
Thang Nguyen 555 