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I dropped the rice bags and screamed at them, my voice raw with months of suppressed rage and grief. \u201cGet away from me! All of you! Just leave me alone!\u201d<\/p>\n

They scattered, laughing, thinking my anger was part of the entertainment.<\/p>\n

I sat down in the middle of the dirt road and cried until I had no tears left.<\/p>\n

Minh\u2019s Birth<\/p>\n

My son was born on a rainy Tuesday in September. The midwife who attended me made her disapproval clear with every terse instruction and tight-lipped expression.<\/p>\n

When Minh finally emerged, tiny and perfect and screaming with the outrage of someone thrust into an unkind world, I felt my heart simultaneously break and reform around him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a boy,\u201d the midwife said, placing him on my chest with more force than necessary. \u201cThough I don\u2019t know what you\u2019ll do with him. No father to provide for him. You\u2019ll both probably starve.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I dropped the rice bags and screamed at them, my voice raw with months of suppressed rage and grief. \u201cGet away from me! All of you! Just leave me alone!\u201d They scattered, laughing, thinking my anger was part of the entertainment. I sat down in the middle of the dirt road and cried until I…<\/p>\n

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