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Conversations with the Guard.


I don't get the guard. Especially the story he was telling about the bowls. Can anyone explain it to me?

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I gathered that he believed communist propaganda at the time that south Vietnamese were living in poverty and didn't have bowls. The guard purchased the bowls with the intention to present them to his aunt and uncle after the fall of Saigon only to realize his aunt and uncle already had fine bowls imported from China, implying that the southerners had a better quality of life than those in North Vietnam.

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