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Thorn In The Heart

"I wanted to die and go with your father, but both of you had
held me back! I was confused and do not know what happen to
me."

My-Thanh jumped onto the bed and held her mother back.

"No...No...! Do not leave us! We do not know how to live!"
My-Thanh cried in her loud voice and said.

"Yes. I might not leave both of you, because your father told
me that even he died I can not let both of you alone. But I do not
know how I can survive without him! We had lost everything
now!"

"Did you think that he will survive?" In a sorrow voice,
Nguyen said.

"I thought... But two week now! No news about your
father...!"

Nguyen was quiet while his mother continued.

"If your father survived he will be home this time."

She stretched her right arm to the backside, pulled My-
Thanh to the front, held her children tighten together in her
arms, and all of them cried in their painful hearts.

The dark was going down without lighting in the house,
while they held together as a solid stone and the only sobbing
broken up in the quiet room.

My-Trinh thought the love for her was a string of sorrow
and painful all night long of waiting without a good dream. She
had cried alone and afraid to lose it for a minute even a moment
of happiness. Also, it seemed the bomb that her spouse was
carrying on his life for the war until exploded and it was...! Her
life torn to a part, and her child's future collapsed as the young

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