Thi Bui’s husband, who moves with her and their young son to California in 2006. The author does not reveal much about him, but he comforts her while she is in labor and develops a relatively close relationship with Má, who tells him all about her childhood despite being hesitant to tell her own daughter.
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Chapter 6
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I understand why it was easier for her to not tell me these things directly, and I DID want to know.
But it still wasn’t EASY for me to swallow that my mother had been at her happiest without us.
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Chapter 10
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That first week of parenting was the hardest week of my life, and the only time I ever felt called upon to be HEROIC.
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Travis Quotes in The Best We Could Do
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Chapter 6
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I understand why it was easier for her to not tell me these things directly, and I DID want to know.
But it still wasn’t EASY for me to swallow that my mother had been at her happiest without us.
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Chapter 10
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That first week of parenting was the hardest week of my life, and the only time I ever felt called upon to be HEROIC.
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