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Thorns in the Heart I

sorrows. As I forgive and try to forget the militarist of French
colonialism. " Nguyen said.

In the wonder eyes, Phuong looked at Nguyen.

" You talked in the tones of deep emotion when you evoked into
the words of communism or the colonialism. Did your past had to
relate to it? " Phuong asked.

" Every Vietnamese people were related to it! It was our history.
Your

situation now is like the situation which I saw on the Bach-Mai
street, in Hanoi Capital when I was 12 years old boy. "

"Really! "

" the Bach-Mai street has some bar which closes to the front
gate of the Bach-Mai Air Force base. Therefore I saw the dirty actions
of the French militarist every evening. They had sexual harassment
to the girls in the bar or pulled the girl on the street into the
shadowed corner of the Bach-Mai alley to rape her. "

" No one help...? " Phuong interrupted.

Nguyen shook his head and sighed.

" No, because the people were afraid to die... They beat the
pedicab driver because they don't want to pay the pedicab driver
labor...! "

Nguyen had pause and looked at Phuong, he asked:

" Do you see a pedicab driver working? "

" No. "

" At that time In the Hanoi Capital had pedicab. It had three
wheels,

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