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Thorns in the Heart I

"One hour only! I will let you waiting for me a little longer
at the next time."

"One hour was one century! How long do you want...? I will
do..."

Then they were laughed and stood up at the same time. They
left the chair, walked parallel side by side to Thong-Nhat
boulevard, turned left on the sidewalk at Old Bao-Dai imperial
side. She often talked about her classmates, teachers, and school.
Nguyen always discussed with her about war, life and family.
Most of the time Hoa Xuan hid her smile behind her hat after
she had heard Nguyen talking indirect about his love, while she
was stepping slowly and glance at him.

In the summer afternoon, sometime Nguyen walked after
her about 5 or 6 feet to watch the red petals flowers of the
student trees, which were plying around her. The flowers were
dropped out of the branches and stopped on her hat, hairs by the
light wind with the rays of light Summer in the shadow. She
often turned back and stood to wait for him, gave him a glance
love look, smile and asked.

"What were you doing...?"

"Nothing more I was revering a beautiful blue angel, who
made the red flowers of student trees embarrassed, then they
were fading and dropped around her."

Nguyen and Hoa Xuan laughed at the same time after his
replying. They walked in parallel again toward the Ban-Me-
Thuot Catholic Cathedral after passing a cross-post circle streets
among Thong-Nhat boulevard, AmatrangLong, Phan-Chu-Trinh,
and Hung-Vuong. Where had a post with three lamps on its top
and directed to each direction between the green grass and a big
cement circle around its foot.

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