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Thorns in the Heart I

Phuong stretched her right hand to take a letter on the living
table, and read on the receiver address :

" To Mr. Nguyen

340 Hung-Vuong, Som-Moi.

Phuoc-Hai, Nha-Trang City.

She looked at Nguyen and asked :

" May I read Long's letter for your listening? "

" Yes, you will understand what I said about his habit. "Nguyen
said with a sad voice.

Nguyen stretched feet on the living room table, lent back to the
sofa, his hands against his back head. He looked up the ceiling at the
moment; then he closed his eyes while Phuong read a long's letter in
a low voice and sometimes with her emotion :

Khe-Sanh May 10, 1969

Dear Nguyen ;

When you get this letter, maybe it is the last one, because I will
go to the war zone. I don't know where and when I will jump in
there, because our division had stood by at Khe-Sanh, where I saw
the B-52 flew with the white lines draw parallel on the sky every time

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