"When blood is no longer pure, can the soul still have a name?"
Born in the body of a Vietnamese boy—with tan skin, black hair, and the wistful eyes of the East—29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3OOYkNzNw
she (yes, she) never imagined that destiny would tear her apart.
A blood transfusion at age fourteen—meant to save her life—29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmFoiPXyEL
becomes the beginning of a journey of possession, multiplicity, prejudice, and pain.
The soul of a Western woman—wife of a Vietnamese man from a previous life—awakens within her.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQAI5YrBxy
From that moment on, she is no longer one person.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCNFwAQmAq
She becomes a fragment of history, an echo of the past, a threshold between East and West, male and female, sinner and survivor.
Rejected by schools, abandoned by her own twin sister, scorned by a society that despises “hybridity,” and belittled for her intellect, gender, and origin—29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFM7u5gubWu
she continues to live.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5YeMZUdQf
Not to be accepted.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPNjACTgEw
But to prove: she is real.
She studies. She loves. She aches. She forgives.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYWAUvtCWJ
She does not choose revenge—she chooses existence.
No one sees the tear in her heart,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnYpgsgxQ9
but all see her rise.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhzUNepZG5y
No one hears her sob in the shadows,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEEsEygznm1
but all witness her smile—29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUxvhQ0Ot1
like a lotus blooming in the mud,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISgEhG12P0
not as radiant as a rose,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSmXnUiBdb
but resilient enough to survive.
And if you’ve ever felt unseen,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6TFg19F1w
if you’ve ever felt like you didn’t belong—29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJpPsuVtcH
then this story is for you.
Not to pity you—29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmBieKSYDd
but to remind you that somewhere in this world,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKA9Kxg0mxG
someone has lived as you have.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkBhSuJ5TZ
And is still living.
