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Leichandra Truong
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Editor's note : LeiChandra Truong is a Vietnamese American who spent two years living in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. She submitted this story to Tuoi Tre News from the San Francisco Bay Area, where she now lives.
Editor's Note: LeiChandra Truong is a Vietnamese American who spent two years living in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. She submitted this story on LGBT rights issues to Tuoi Tre News from Vancouver, Canada, where she now lives.
Editor's Note: LeiChandra Truong is a Vietnamese-American contributor who spent two years living in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. She filed this story to Tuoitrenews from Vancouver, Canada, where she now lives. For many Americans, Vietnam may represent a war history that they try to dismiss from their memory.
In February 2009 during the Tet Lunar New Year holiday, I took my first trip to Vietnam. Sitting at a pho stall on a Hanoian Old Quarter Street, a man asked me where I was from because he heard me ordering three bowls for my friends and noticed my Southern yet slightly broken accent.
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