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“I was lucky enough to have parents who were able to hold their gaze steady, no matter the mood of the moment. My mother often recited the proverb that was written on the blackboard of her eighth-grade class in Saigon: Đời là chiến trận, nếu buồn là thua. Life is a struggle in which sorrow leads to defeat.”