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LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE - FINAL CHAPTER

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 20 THE BUDDHIST MONK FATHER, SAKURA’S TEARS BLOOM --------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Dara was getting old and had turned 46. He was getting more worried as his situation seems to get worse and worse. He keeps telling himself life must move on and this is what we...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 19

Chapter 19 Dad in Tears, Daughter Hears & Studies Hard Sakura completed high school when she turned 19. She received a B.A. scholarship in 2013 to the United States thanks to her good academic records and her high level of English. Her voluntary work during her high school years also helped her to secure the scholarship to study internati...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 18

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 18 SEE YOU IN HEAVEN, OUR KARMA --------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 The next morning, Dara got up early and pulled his glasses from the pocket of his jacket which hung on the wall next to his wife’s picture, grabbed the newspapers and began to read. He reads from...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 17

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 17 TOUR OLD PLACES, OLD MEMORIES RETURN --------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Dara had not slept well because his wife did not show up in Siem Reap as promised. He sipped black coffee to make him awake to ensure he does not fall asleep and skid off the road on the r...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 16

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 16 TOMORROW NEVER COMES --------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Duongchan had avoided meeting Dara, who had tried to meet her for 8 years from 2005. Dara, through his neighbours, tried to convince Duongchan to see their daughter before Sakura left to study in the Unit...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 15

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 15 NEW CAMBODIA RISES, OLD LOVE FALLS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Dara had long thought that globalization will bring prosperity to his wife Duongchan as well as to all Cambodians but instead it brings more troubles than prosperity. A new Cambodia on old l...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 14

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 14 AMERICAN KNIFE ENGRAVES ETERNAL LOVE ON TREES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 It was January in 2003 after a busy week of covering the events of the Cambodian anti-Thai protests in Phnom Penh, where the Thai embassy had been burned and looted. Dara t...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 13

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 13 POL POT DIES, THE KNOT OF LOVE REMAINS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 It was in April 1998 when Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge, died in Cambodia’s jungle at Anlong Veng near the Thai border. The Khmer Rouge broke into pieces, followed b...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 12

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 12 LEAVING LOVE TO LEARN IN L.A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Before dawn, the poor couple woke and got up early to catch their chickens at the backyard so that they can sell the birds to get some money for Dara. The sounds of hens and...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 11

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 11 LOVES, LEARNS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 After working for nearly three years with The Cambodia Diamond as a reporter, Dara then obtained a scholarship to Los Angeles in the U.S. in 1997. Leaving love for L.A. is a new world for h...

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