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Thorns in the Heart I

         so small and so insignificant, then I was fell against to the column of
         the door, cried like a child in the dark."

             " I had to tell you don't fall into it... it was not good for your
         health.

             " Standing up to live like every people, who were lived. So many
         cases were paid more than you were. "

             "  I  always  thought  of  you  during  my  crisis.  Thinking  of  you,  it
         made  me    feel  warm  and  happiness;  I  could  forgive  and  forget
         anything, and try to live like someone else if I was beside you."
             "Why? "


             Phuong tossed her hair away from her face, sipped her coffee,
         gave a glance at Nguyen, and smile.
             " Because I had to get the first kiss on my front head so that I
         couldn't put you away in my head. Sometime I was awake all night,
         lying down on  the bed, looking up to the ceiling, I felt something was
         lost  in  my  heart,  feeling  humiliated,  rolled  over  onto  my  stomach,
         held  the  bed  pillow  tightly  and  wept.  I  was  afraid  of  it,  so  I  came
         here. "

              She replied.

             Nguyen had turned his face to avoid looking her light eyes. He
         looked out the window. It had stopped raining. Without stars in the
         sky,  the  weak  lamppost  light  at  the  street  corner  was  all  that
         illuminated the darkness of the night. He talked to her while looking
         out the window into the darkness.

             "Sometimes  most people  were  in the  state  you  were be, they
         had been lying on the bed without sleeping whole night, or suddenly
         they wake up, and then not dallying back to sleep again, their eyes
         opening wide,  looking up at the ceiling, thinking of their condition of
         life,  feeling  of  emotion  in  their  hearts  in  the  motion  of  silent  and
         empty time. It was quiet of night, and they were being pulled back

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