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While visiting Huong's family, she agreed to accompany me on a walk through their Muong Khuong neighborhood We set off with Loan and Dung in tow |
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Soon we met Hong, who was just arriving home from shopping |
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She invited us in and showed us around |
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she has a hard life her husband has a bad foot, and can't work much she has had to do most of the work for the family
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the bedroom
she has a daughter in college and a son in high school
all four sleep in this one bed |
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the kitchen fairly primitive
she grows vegetables, to sell |
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she fixed tea for us, her hostpitality undiminished by her travails
we left her with a gift of money
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I struck up a conversation with La Ta Sen |
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and as so often happens, I soon had curious onlookers
that big odd foreigner, ya know? |
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A little earlier I had come across three Hmong women
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The Hmong are an Asian ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
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their dress and manners are quite distinctive
I saw many in Muong Khuong |
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Cao Tran Hung and his little friend |
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Plying the streets of Hanoi I came across Hab |
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with granddaughter Hien |
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who's that crazy falang with his hand on my shoulder? |
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Whoops How'd that get in here? |
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and Hom in Hoi An |
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who went bonkers with giggles when I planted one on her cheek
this is pushing the envelope in Vietnam
I like envelopes |
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and Kep, a dapper gentleman |
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at least part way down |
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In the Old Quarter of Hanoi I hired Doan to walk with me, to translate and help me identify things He stopped occasionally to garner a puff from a local |
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Just been healed, praise the Lord?
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No, I was strolling by, and caught her exercising |
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One of the more interesting beards I've seen
Vietnamese men are not very hairy |
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A Hoi An woman
I saw many with teeth like this |
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