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Thorns in the Heart I

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 dies 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 for the first time of their life. Why they didn't die in
peaceful instead, they were dead in painful in many cases?
So many places in the world had a war. The people were killed
on the battlefields, in the villages and cities from World War II until
now...!
The injustice was still unchanged in the society in the South and
North Vietnam. The people were used to be a slave to the
Vietnamese Communist party without the basic of the human right
to live...!
How many people who were alive and survival to see those
situations and cries in their sobbing...! How many people had
followed Ho-Chi-Minh's word to fight without ending and seek

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