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my dirty past…
I kept telling my wife, “no, this is not me”, but she didn’t buy my words. I even explained to her that this is just the picture I took of another worker who was transporting good from Trần Văn Kiểu Street to his boat anchoring alongside the stink and dirty Tàu Hủ arroyo, but she concluded, “that’s why I knew that’s you!”
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I don’t blame my wife. She has strong and good reason to believe the man in this picture is her husband.
After the “Reunification Date of April 30, 1975”, I continuously gave my wife the worst images of her husband. 15 years and 6 months: a period long enough for me to taste the life through different ways: fisher, woodcutter, driver, porter (like in this photo), bamboo cutter, street photographer, prisoner, farmer, construction worker…
Even to my son: this image has been deeply engraved in his memory before he has chance to know a classroom, just because his daddy is a former soldier of the “Saigon puppet government”. It’s a shame that I got the military life and he pays the toll. To tell the truth, I had about 20 failures in attempting to escape Vietnam by boat. Finally, my former employer successfully got us out on October 31, 1990.
God has granted us a miracle for a safe departure by air, but not a second one to make my loved ones believe this man is not me. I swear that only the photo has been shot by me.
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