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Family relationships
Khoa
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"Seeing how beautifully Khoa looked after these kids, combined with his generosity...i thought i'd nominate him for...Young Australian of the Year"
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"after working so closely with him on the film, I realised just how special a person he really was"
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Mum
"I realised she was trying to comfort a scared old man, and my heart filled with love for her."
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“My son lup your dotter berry much. Anh tek care of Suzie like he tek care of us. An has very big lup. When he lup someone he mek sure dey happy forever”
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"I would've happily given it all up to see her work a little; to have her fall sick less frequently"
Grandma
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"Grandma loved gardening" "every house we lived in.. turned into a saigon paddy with eggplants, snakebeans, basil etc."
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"Grandma always had a wonderful youthfulness about her. She used to come in after a hard day's work... crack open a can of VB, put her feet up and sing karaoke"
Dad
the positives
teaching Anh, Khoa and Tram how to look after animals
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"I realised that, when he wasn't drunk, this guy was indeed the most wonderful dad in the world"
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"I realised I still very much loved this laughing, beautiful, terribly flawed man"
"Eternal, incurable optimist"
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“when you know its right for you, but it scares you, it means you have the most to gain from doing it”.
His fathers strong confidence. "My father walked my uncles out of the camp, right through the gate."
"He was scared all those times, and yet he still managed to pull it all off. In that moment my respect and love for this man went up tenfold.”
"I also loved it when Dad taught me things. I felt so privileged to be learning the secrets only a chosen few would ever know."
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the negatives
"Dad had acted like I'd gone away for a short holiday and recently come back. What I had really wanted from him was an apology, so I called him again."
"I was also frightened. I wanted to reconnect with the man I used to know, not deal with some strange illness."
Dad leaving
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"Dad often seemed to disappear for weeks on end and then one day Mum told us that he had gone back to Vietnam for a while."
"ahhh, relief, I remember thinking to myself. No drunk in the house for a year."
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"I found myself lying awake in bed at night, thinking about how I would defend my family."
"If he lays a finger on Mum, I will kill him."
"When you break though a fear of your father and decide that you're ready and willing to hurt him"
His dad coming back to see Hien (Mum) in a drunken state and it being a very emotional, stressful, intense, terrifying night for Anh, his sibling and his mother.
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"I'd make him pay for everything. For pissing off. For forcing mum to look after three kids on an illiterate Vietnamese migrant's wages of less than ten bucks an hour. But I also miss him dearly."
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Uncle six
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"then six months later, a strange thing happened. Uncle Six suddenly moved out and I never saw him again. He just disappeared."