Member Since: 11/5/2009
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Anyone follow this on Facebook? It's a cute group, some of it is very sad though!
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"Our daughter was five months old when I got a scholarship to Johns Hopkins. My wife came with me to Baltimore so that our family could stay together. I will always be thankful for that sacrifice, because I know it was the toughest three years of her life. She didn't speak a word of English. We lived in a tiny studio-- so tiny that many times I did my studying in the bathroom. In Vietnam, she had a job where she was getting phone calls all day long. But in America, the phone never rang. She wasn't allowed to work because of visa requirements. Vietnamese holidays were regular days in America, so I'd be in class during New Year and we could never be together. Sometimes when I'd come home from school during wintertime, she'd look at me with tears in her eyes and say: 'Tuan, I want to go home.' But she still stayed with me. When I finally got my degree, many of my friends asked if I'd look for a job in the US. But I wouldn't do that to her. She had done enough for me. So I said: 'We are going home immediately.' And as soon as we got back to Vietnam, she was like a fish back in the pond."
(Hanoi, Vietnam)
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“I’m glad I had a daughter. Ever since my grandmother died, I’ve needed the female energy in my life. It’s good energy. I mean, when things go wrong, another man can tell you that everything is going to be OK. But not like a woman can.”
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I saw this comment while browsing the picture of the Vietnam one, it made me tear-y 
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When I was about 4, oneday my dad came to pick me up from kindergarten, there was one of my classmate had her father come to pick her up too. Her father gave her an ice cream and she was very happy eating it. I really wanted an ice cream too, but I didn't ask my dad cause I knew my family was poor at that time. I just quietly looked at her. The next day, my dad came to pick me up, WITH AN ICE CREAM IN HIS HAND. It's the best ice cream ever and that's one of the happiest moments in my life. It's not only an ice cream, it's his love for me. Now I can buy ice cream as many as I want, but I can never see my dad again. Miss him so much.
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and ask permission to take pictures of them for some website.