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Thorn In The Heart

tomorrow. Aunt Chuc will have a big surprise. and she will have
a lot of questions...”

In the happy smile, Nguyen had thought, talked to himself
and hopped as a bird on the dam. His soul opened as much as the
natural countrysides of the wide green paddies, sweet potatoes,
taro and peanut fields along on both sides dike. He sang loudly
the songs that he learned from his grandpa when he was five-
years-old. Few farmers stopped working on the field, raised
their heads to look up the dike and had a smile with his innocent
actions, then bend their back to continue the job.

In suddenly, Nguyen found the game to play with the white
egrets. He raised his arms in the air, howled like a wolf that he
learned from on the films, and jumped high in the air at the same
time. These actions make the white egrets jumping, took off the
field, flew in the air then landing on another place and noisy.

Also, Nguyen connected the wildflowers along the dike,
holding them on his hand, while he was thinking of his
grandparent with the green memories and sorrows in his soul.
Sometime Nguyen looked at the flowers on his hand, smiles and
thought that his grandparent would be a pleasure after he put
those flowers on their graves.

Nguyen was walking on the large dike, while his soul was
flying with the light wind, and running as the waves on the
paddy field with the happy smiles. His dream as the white
clouds that were floating slowly in the blue sky under the hot
sun of the summer, and mixed with his voice by the happy song.
Few times he stopped to look at the back birds flying with the V
figure and noisy crossing in the air.

Natural was peaceful under the temperature climbed to
tropical of noon and hygrometrical weather state. Nguyen felt
deeply in the back home happiness steps and did not pay
attention to a French military aircraft observer until he heard its

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