hai mươi một ❀| if you're hearing screams, come back, child, come back

[lotuslife]

[There's silence, for a few moments- light, unsteady breathing before Vietnam speaks. Her voice is quiet and strained.] I want to go home just as much as the rest of you do. So if there is... In any way... that what information I can provide can become useful, then... Tôi không biết...

My full name is Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam. The

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[motheringnation]

.....

[Silence.]

Am not part of brother any more.

But remember those times. Towns version of brothers house is wrong.

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[lotuslife]

...Not every part of it, comrade.

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[motheringnation]

Of course not.

[And you just ...made her angry.]

Have lived through those times. Know exactly what brother is capable of. Have watched my people die because of his. This version of brothers house belittles the suffering we all went through. Is wrong.

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[lotuslife]

[good, she thinks; good that Ukraine feels anger. she'll need more of it if Mayfield continues on this way.]

I know, comrade. Do you think that my own people did not experience their own version of re-education?

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[motheringnation]

No, know that.

Death comes with change.

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[lotuslife]

Cờ in máu chiến thắng mang hồn nước. 'Our flag, red with the blood of victory, bears the spirit of our country'...

My own national anthem. Death does come with change, doesn't it...

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[motheringnation]

It does.

Stanem brattia, v biy kryvavy, vid Sianu do Donu
V ridnim kraiu panuvaty ne damo ni komu.

'We'll stand, brothers, in bloody battle, from the Syan to the Don,
We will not allow others to rule in our motherland.'

Is mine. How many of our songs have blood in them...

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[lotuslife]

...That is the inherent nature of humanity, century after century.

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[motheringnation]

It never changes.

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[lotuslife]

And when they finally learn that blood does not need to be spilled... They are gone from this life.

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[motheringnation]

Always takes them so long. And some never learn.

.....am surprised more of us have not turned out like brother.

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[lotuslife]

...

Some of us just hide it well.

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[motheringnation]

Mmm.

[She sighs.]

Are you in a safe place?

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[lotuslife]

There is no truly safe place here.

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[motheringnation]

No, but some are safer then others.

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[lotuslife]

Perhaps for you.