Go figure how you get Janet out of Vuong, but that's what happened. War's grimness faded into ice cream parties in Falls Church. Her parents lost brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, friends and all the places and memories that shaped them. She has no memory of herself as little Vuong, having bid her goodbye at 23 months. She is, has always been, just Janet.
Life is good, very good.
Our baby is going to look different, that's for sure. That's interesting to me. I like it. Life here is so different than what it might have been. The new face of America is in her belly, riding high and leading people to dredge up the folklore that she's carrying a boy.