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Thorns in the Heart I

He went around to find the way hiding at the day time; he never
sleeps

twice at same of place. I was waked up at midnight by my father

in the accident. He tells me to hurry to change my clothes, and
we leave our

home, I asked him about my mom and my old sister. He said:
They gone

two hours ago. We left our house from the back door towards
the field,

and his shoulder carry a small hoe, I fell so many time on the
field

banks at the night time, until the day time, we stopped by in the
shadow

at the foot tree, then he told me: He will go first and I must hide
any
people while I was following him at a distance, what happens to
him I must keep going on and do not let them know I was his son. I
said: yes, and kept a short space walking behind him ."

Phuong opened wide her eyes looking at Nguyen.

" How many days you can keep up that way? " Phuong asked.

"I think about four days we reached Hai-Phong, I met my mom
and my sister

after we lived in the refugee camp two days, we were picked up
to the

South Vietnam by the C-47 of French, and American Air Forces,
we lived at the Nha-Ton resettlement area in Nha-Trang city. It was
Phuoc-Hai area now ."

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