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[lsanderson]

Thong's family farm, he clarified today, is 200 miles from Saigon. He hopes to dump his baby brother (the pseudo-child - Thi) there. I'm not sure it will work at all.

Thi appeared at the house early this morning to check out which camera he wanted Thong to bring. I've got a camcorder, and Thong has two other cameras. Thi liked the Canon, at least until he heard how much Compact Flash cards cost. I left for work amongst a sing-song rumble of Vietnamese.

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[alisgray.livejournal.com]

I hope it isn't rude to ask, but what is a pseudo-child?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Pseudo-child - from pseudo - False or counterfeit; fake. Thi is Thong's "baby" brother. When Thong decided to leave Vietnam, he dragged his younger brother with, perhaps not entirely willingly, perhaps willingly, but he musta been very young. They ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand. They made it into the US barely under the deadlines and stayed with a married sister of theirs for a while. It went not well at all.

At some point after Thong moved in here, we rescued Thi and his closet of designer clothes from a house on Nicollet.

He lived here for the last few years of high school and off and on when he was in college. It involved driving him to school and the like. Close to having an actual child, but with the freedom to boot him out onto the streets of our fair cities if things got too tense.

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[alisgray.livejournal.com]

aha. not pseudo as in made of rubber or hard plastic, then...

sounds like a very broadening experience.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

You know, with a few weeks advance notice I would be thrilled to accompany him to Viet Nam.

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