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Thorns in the Heart I

" No, sometimes we went to play the game in a quiet area, and
she and I knew only, ran after butterflies among the flowers to catch
them, then pressed them in our books. "

" You think that love was like a dream, don't you? "

" I didn't know how, when the feeling of love slides into my
tender

heart ? and because I was so young, I did not understand about
that...!

One day on Sunday morning at Spring season 1959, flowers
blooms in full colors, She went to the Church with her marriage
clothes, standing beside her father, and among all of her relatives. I
was so surprised, stood at the left side of the entrance door of the
Church, looked fix at her face, while the bell was ringing to welcome
her step into the Church, and after I saw me happy smile, I left the
Church during of the time she was getting the marriage service. I
went to old places, where we were playing games. I didn't know why
I went to there! "

" You do love her... " Phuong interrupted while Nguyen had
pause.

" After I was back home, sitting in the living room, looking out
through the window to her parent's house, I saw her family friends
crowded around her to take a picture, and congratulated. They
opened the party full of food and wines, sometimes the words'
wishes of their guests were in accord with the laughter, and the
crackles of the firecracker on their front yard...."

In a moment Nguyen stopped talking, took his cup of coffee,
holding a cup in his hand, looking into it and sipped, seemed he
thought over his youth past, the time of tender love without
thinking, and worry about life, and life was such as a beautiful song,
that echo in the air, hiding in the cloud, flying over the green grass
field and spreading out to the horizon in the peaceful, he doesn't

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