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Thorn In The Heart

"Most of us were look old more than our true ages. War...!
You knew this thing, Don't you."

"Yes. Quang Baby-Face was your nickname."

Quang laughed and pointed to Nguyen.

"I grew in the flame of war. Your nickname was..."

"Nguyen Philosophy. Because Most the time I was quiet and
thought much more about my past." Nguyen continued: "Yes.
The war made us growing up so fast from any directions of life!
I was not as quiet as before." Suddenly Nguyen looked at
Quang.

"Do you hear about Dinh? I did not see him a year now..."
Nguyen asked.

"Do you mention me about Tran-Quang-Dinh? Dinh Funny!
that you asked me about him."

"Yes," Nguyen replied.

In a moment of quiet. Quang stared at Nguyen and shook his
head

"He died...!"

Nguyen gasped at hearing Dinh's news. He holds tight to the
edge of the table, looked down on the table and cries.

"When? How he died?" In an emotion voice, Nguyen
asked.

Quang looked at Nguyen with his sobbing and painful.

"At the Christmas time last year, he volunteers to fly a
mission of moving the Ranger soldier troops from Nha-Trang to

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