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Let Me Be A Bad Hmong Daughter, Then, Mom

Baoku
6 min readJun 21, 2020

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Dear Mom,

I am hurting.

I know you’ve envisioned a certain kind of life for your kids. You fled with your family to the Thai refugee camps and resettled in America with nothing — no language, capital, or familiarity. Through hardships and struggle, you eventually cultivated something for yourself in America.

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