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long xuyen. i really missed home.

tonight we took little jota for a walk. he was taken care of by the lady that cleans this building. i don’t believe that she understood when i told her to only feed him a little at a time. she went through the entire bag of food that we gave her and jota returned as plump as ever. he looks like a suckling pig.

we walked around the dirt streets. he wouldn’t stray too far away from us. well, there was this one time when he ran right into some stranger’s house. as we were heading home the unthinkable happened. our little boy, our baby, our only child (a son no less!) was involved in a hit and run accident.

jota ambled towards the center of the road. bicycles were slowly passing and then a bolt of lightning roared by. some teenagers on a blue motorcycle plowed into our little boy at break-neck speed. jack ran after them yelling and i tended to our fallen child. he was yelping and screaming. i held him close to my chest afraid that his leg was broken. he cried on my shoulder as we carried him home.

what a tragic night. thank goodness our little boy is safe and quietly sleeping at my feet.