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Thorn In The Heart

"Nothing...! I must go now..."

Nguyen blocked her way.

"No... It was raining. I could not let you walk in the rain.
Quang will think bad of me."

Dung looked at Nguyen by her tears rolled on her face.

"Yes. I knew, but I did not want to see you and parent will
do not want to see you also." In her sobbing voice, Dung said.

Nguyen's hands held his head; his right foot trampled on the
floor, and

glazed at Dung's face.

"What happened to your family and me? Please tell me"
Nguyen asked.

Dung pushed Nguyen away. She ran out from the story,
walking in the rain and cried loudly.

"Quang died...! You know that, didn't you?"

Nguyen bent over on the top glass cabinet of the shop, his
eyes seemed blind, and his brain had numb. He cried like a child
and did not care about a few people stopped to watching him. He
walked out of the shop, bending his head, mumbling the worlds:

"Quang died...! Quang died...! Quang, goddamned you...!
Why your family did not let me know, and this small town did
not have a newspaper, you knew that. Last month, I went to
Saigon two week. Before I leave Ban-Me-Thuot, I had come to
your house and saw your parent happy with your son. Why were
you easy to die? Fuck you...! I will never see them anymore.
Because I do not want they look at me to remind of you. It was
painful to me, to them. But nothing more to do... Quang, I do

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