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Garden Grove: A Short Story

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I live in Garden Grove, Vietnam. I know Garden Grove is not in Vietnam, but it feels immensely so. My community is small, we know and see all, but we are not tight knit or family like. There are Vietnamese people everywhere I go and look. If a person who was not Vietnamese, of Asian descent, or Mexican in my community, they would stand out like a sore thumb. This small, judging world of your typical, old-fashioned Vietnamese people have made me want to leave, to venture out and to explore the possibilities there are in this world. I want to travel, I want to have an adventure. I want to discover what is in the next city over because I for one have never been out of Garden Grove for more than a few hours, and that as we all know if not enough

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