My mom was so determined to “go home” to her childhood place that she climbed out of the balcony which sits eight feet above the ground level, except at the corner near the front step where it is only three feet high. She “escaped” at this corner, lugging a very heavy backpack full of books and pulling another bag with her. When Lan found her grandmother and brought her back to the house, she refused to come in. I said to my husband, “Lan got the stubborness from my mom.” He replied, “And it didn’t skip a generation, you know.”
