“Just take stuff out of people’s green trash cans. The work will already be done for you.” I look at him now with admiration. Quang-ha’s mother is the hardest worker that I’ve ever seen. And she has passed on to her son a unique quality. He understands labor in a different way. If he’s not interested in something, he will do anything to get out of doing it. I mean it when I say to him: “Quang-ha, you may very well have a future career in management.” As if to drive home his point he says: “If there are any ice-cream bars in the freezer, I’ll take one.” There have never been ice-cream bars in
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