Dear Sahulu!

How are you? How is life back in Vietnam?
I am not so good here in America. I don't like it here, and i miss you! Everything is so unfamiliar, I don't know anybody here, I've got no one to talk to and not much to do. My only light these days is my little girl, Suri, and my husband. I can't believe he still puts up with me after all the mistakes I've made because I do not always understand him. He is really kind to me, and fortunately he never gets mad when I have done something wrong. Even though we do not always understand each other, we love one another and this love is what sustains me when I feel sad and alone. At times I dream of coming home, of being with people of my own kind.. But then I think of Suri and that I have to give her a good life together with her father here, in the land where all dreams can come true. I don't think mine will though, but maybe for my little girl life will be better and she might learn to love this country in all the ways I don't. We will have to wait and see what fate has in store for us in the future, maybe I will learn to adapt and feel like I fit in here eventually. I do hope so. I will write to you again soon! Until then; hugs and kisses from me.
(In response to Elizabeth Gordons On the other side of the war: A story)