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About life in Hanoi, the delicacy of language, things people say, Vietnam's proximity to China, the immensity of the Chinese diaspora, et cetera et cetera.
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Yesterday I got so oldI felt that I could die There’d come a year when she would forget. That is an inevitable fact: An old person’s memory is supposed to decline. But not this year. This year the phone rang before I woke up. When it did, I knew precisely why. My grandmother turns 90 this year, and still calls me first thing on my birthday. She has done so for as long as I have owned a phone. Her routine and punctuality reflects the habits of those from her generation, her expected role based on
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