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The Best We Could Do
Thi Bui
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“Proximity and closeness are not the same.”
“Maybe being their child simply means that I will always feel the weight of their past.”
“To understand how my father became the way he was, I had to learn what happened to him as a little boy. It took a long time to learn the right questions to ask.”
“Má leaves me but I'm not alone, and a terrifying thought creeps into my head. Family is now something I have created and not just something I was born into.”
“This - not any particular piece of Vietnamese culture - is my inheritance: the inexplicable need and extraordinary ability to run when the shit hits the fan. My refugee reflex.”
“How much of ME is my own and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?”
“Every casualty in war is someone's grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, brother, sister, child, lover.”
“I remember being excited about seeing snow for the very first time.”
“That first week of parenting was the hardest week of my life, and the only time I ever felt called upon to be HEROIC.”
“Have our parents ever looked at us and felt slightly… disappointed? Such high hopes, so much possibility, to fall short. And though my parents took us far away from the site of their grief… certain shadows stretched far, casting a gray stillness over our childhood… hinting at a darkness we did not understand but could always FEEL.”
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