What Is Life?

Lily grew up in an ethnic Chinese family in Vietnam and fell in love with the Vietnamese boy next door. But when war broke out between their countries, Lily's father decided that it was no longer safe for his family to live there. Toen came to my parents, Lily said: He asked to leave the country with us. What does love do over our heads? I asked her. Love doesn't put rice in the cooker or a roof on your head, she told me. Without love, what would we do with ourselves? No one could pry his fingers off the lock of his old house after she and her family left; he cried for three days  in front of