Lannie is in graduate school to become a nurse practitioner and Amy has a master's degree in business administration. Van works for IBM and the couple owns an electronic printing business in Rock Hill. In 1987, they bought Terasita's restaurant off Firetower Road. Mary had learned American cooking from the Duckworths, and they renamed the restaurant Mary's Cafe about a year later. During lunch hour, the parking lot is crammed at Mary's.
Chinese food is listed at the bottom, but it's an afterthought.
Vietnam veterans number among her most loyal customers. Sometimes they drop by between lunch and dinner rush to have a beer, sit at the counter, smoke a cigarette and reminisce about Vietnam. Mary is still homesick. She has visited her homeland three times and believes conditions have improved there since the United States resumed negotiations with the communist government. Sometimes she thinks she would like to die there.