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Home away from Home
My home in Ban Nongbone
Author: DJ26.06.2008
On her way home from Wat Nongbone, Aunt Kian made one last stop for me. She went by my former house to take some photos for me. She didn’t know whether or not she had the right house and asked a couple of people and they still remember my mother and also the death of my sister. The old house is gone but the new owner built a new house on the same spot. I can still see the coconut trees that my parents grew for us. We each had a coconut tree to take care of and now they are all bearing fruits. I don’t know if the owner of the house is still the same one that my parents sold the house to before we moved to stay with my grandmother in Phon Tong.
The family that bought our house used to live up the street at the four ways intersection, leading to Wat That Luang. I used to go watch TV at their house with my siblings a few times. The father had a small shop for fixing bicycles and motorbikes. I wonder if they will still remember me. I will have to make a visit to my old neighborhood the next time I am in Laos. If I remember correctly, the owner of the house next door is still living there the last time my father went to Laos in 2000.