Page 319 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

bows. Sometimes we saw the infant who nearly to die on their
mother arms, but we didn't know how to help her. Few times
your father and your uncle had buried the person who had to die
on outside the front gate before we opened it. Mss. Bich-Chau
and I cried a lot about those things. We hurried to give each
hungry person a bow of rice gruel after opened the gate, but it
was

Not enough for them! Then we were sorry to walk quickly
back into the front yard after we locked it off." In her emotion,
she told.

"Mom. Why you locked the front gate?" Nguyen asked.

"If we don't lock the front gate, all of them will come into
the house, and we will die by them. Because sometimes they
were lost they behaved and became the hungry crazy person or
mental crisis."

"Oh...! So Mss. Bich-Chau became a nun by those things!"

"Yes, she loved people..."

"Mom. Where was she now?"

Nguyen mother looked out the window and sight.

"She died at 1954, while her monastery had tried to escape
Viet-Cong from Hang-Nguyen in North to South Viet-Nam."

"So My-Chau and I didn't know her," My-Hanh said.

"Because I don't mention her to all of you."

Nguyen always kept in his mind those images that his
mother had told and thought a lot of life with the questions: Why
the people were born to get all of the painful on their life? They
had full love of their parent at the first time of their life. Why

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