Unlike Long, Duoc has six brothers and sisters, three of them in the orphanage and three still living in A Luoi. He even playfully coerced one of his sisters to talk with me, but she ran off.

“I’m studying Agricultural Engineering,” Duoc said, after some time meandering through my dictionary. “We product and make farm foot.” 

“Produce and make farm foods, like what?”

“Rice, coffee and mia,” he tried to explain that last one, but it’ll have to wait to look that one up.