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Thorn In The Heart

memories of the childhood and dream of peace on the
countrysides.

She was listening to her husband with the sad eyes and had
images of the bloodbath for the North people, who will be living
in the Vietminh trap, and never get out of this cruel laws until
they die. The richer and high educator who communist called the
capitalist and reactionary elements will struggle in their blood
any time by the communist party’s policies because the
communist hearts will never open to love the people that they
have learned to create the proletariat and promoted to be the
class struggle in the social.

She always listens to her spouse in quietly and tried to
believe his explanation about political and policy shifting of
Communist’s opinion after they controlled the North. However,
sometimes she looked at her children, shook her head, sight and
does not know what decision to make. Also, she always obeys
her husband for everything that Vietnamese women had learned
from their parent and the heavy unviolated tradition cultures to
follow their spouse.

Nguyen’s father was resigned to get out of the 10th Mobile
Battalion after two months of theGeneva agreement for the
peace of Vietnam, which had signed by the allied such as The
United State, Great Britain, Soviet Union, India, Italy, etc... He
also knew that this peace agreement made the huge refugee ware
moving toward the South to escape Communist cruel rules
before the Communist party take over and control the North.

He prepped to move back his old village with love for the
land and hopeful for his children, that they will live and grow in
the peaceful of the country when the war is over, and the
Communist’s opinion will change for the people.

One day, Nguyen’s father sold the house in the Bach-Mai
alley, Hanoi Capital, rent a bus to transfer his goods, carried his

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