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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.