“I’m doing well, Ma,” he said. “I’m making money too. As an assistant in a medical lab on campus. It’s not much but it’s something.” “I knew you would, baby,” she whispered. He said he’d send her a check, which she refused, saying he should repay instead the money owed from his first time at college. And when she mentioned she had made herself rice porridge and was sitting by the altar “eating it with Bà ngoại,” he couldn’t bear it and made an excuse to wrap up the call and hung up.
