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You look healthy.
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You're a ghost.
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I don't see you.
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I don't know where you are.
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How is your sister Kim?
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Fine.
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Fine.
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Your grandsons. My boys.
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Jimmy is Hung.
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Tommy is Chau.
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Alan.
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Born in America.
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What'd she say?
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She says you're giant.
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She can't believe your size.
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You used to scratch your back...
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...on the wooden post in our house.
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Look at her teeth!
- Stop that.
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Brother.
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Take one.
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Be polite.
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I'm sorry. I can't.
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Don't spoil a good time.
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My oldest son and my youngest daughter
are back with me.
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My two halves on either side.
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We share the same mother, I agree.
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I love her as a sister...
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...but I cannot accept her gifts.
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I had this terrible fear
you would despise me...
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...because I married your enemy
and left while you were still fighting.
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It's been so many years.
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Much is forgiven.
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But you don't understand
how much suffering Americans caused.
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Things are very hard.
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We use our own excrement...
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...to grow vegetables!
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All we had to hold on to was the future...
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...because we knew that the future
would not arrive unless we won...
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...so we kept dying, no matter what...
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...just like ants beneath the elephant's feet.
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It wasn't because we were brave.
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Because we had no choice.
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Our freedom was all...
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...all that mattered.
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When the future finally came...
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...there was more war.
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The Cambodians, the Chinese.
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When I came to look for Mama in 1980....
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You have no idea
how much your mother suffered.
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She was too old to work the paddies.
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She had to give the land,
our land, to the State after liberation.
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When I found Mama and Hai...
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...they were starving.
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Their clothes were rags,
their farm tools stolen...
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...the animals slaughtered.
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The house was in ruins.
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Wild dogs attacked them.
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Nobody in the village cared for them.
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Just two old ladies scavenging...
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...and growing vegetables to stay alive.
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Now you come here...
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...a rich, strange foreigner.
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You'll turn the village against them.
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And against us...
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...the Phungs, who have suffered so much.
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Things were bad for everyone
after liberation.
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Many times,
heaven and earth changed places.
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If you ask me,
rebuilding a nation after a war...
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...is like trying to start a
family by getting raped!
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If war produces one thing,
it's many cemeteries.
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And in cemeteries there are no enemies.
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All I could think of for so long...
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...was how I made your
brother, Sau, go to war.
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Your father wanted your brother to know
some of the joys of married life...
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...but I said no,
so sure I was doing the right thing.
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Can you believe it?
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I gave up a grandson to gain a soldier.
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And I lost both.
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How wrong I was.
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It was also An Sau's choice.
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He was just being a good son
when he obeyed me.
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If I could, I'd have stopped you
from going to America.
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What would've happened
to your sons here?
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I'm so proud of you, Bay Ly.
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You've grown up to see the side of things
that's hidden from most people.
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Tears are God's way of paying you back...
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...for what He's taken.
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I have no more tears.
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I have cried them out
to all directions of the wind.
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My color's changing, Ly.
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It began last year.
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I have seen it before in others.
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You have come back,
and that's what matters.
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You have completed your circle of growth.
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Low tide to high tide...
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...poor to rich...
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...sad to happy...
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...beggar to a fine lady.
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Your past is now complete...
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...and my destiny
as your mother is now over.
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I'm looking forward to joining your papa.
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That night,
I slept in the house my father built.
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Afterward, he found no need
to visit me in my dreams.
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I gave my offerings to all
the dead of the village.
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I had come home, yes.
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But home had changed...
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...and I would always be in between...
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...south, north...
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...east, west...
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...peace, war...
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...Vietnam, America.
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It is my fate to be
in between heaven and earth.
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When we resist our fate, we suffer.
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When we accept it, we are happy.
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We have time in abundance, an eternity...
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...to repeat our mistakes.
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But we need only once
correct our mistake...
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...and at last hear the song
of enlightenment...
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...with which we can break the
chain of vengeance forever.
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In your heart you can hear it now.
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It's the song your spirit has been
singing since your birth.
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If the monks were right
and nothing happens without cause...
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...then the gift of suffering
is to bring us closer to God...
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...to teach us to be
strong when we are weak...
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...to be brave when we are afraid...
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...to be wise in the midst of confusion...
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...and to let go of that
which we can no longer hold.
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Lasting victories are won in the heart...
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...not on this land or that.
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