Ahhhh, naive romance and heartbreak. These two concepts seem to be the topic of nearly every conversation and rumor in Roncalli. The same apply on the other side of the world. We learned in the previous chapter that Anh and Bay Ly are romantically involved. So what happens when two people are romantically involved and it is a forbidden romance? You guessed right, someone gets pregnant. As my distinguished colleague, Mikaela, would say: "Whoa snap." Our beloved Bay Ly is about 15 or 16 and she is a future mother. Her mother was LIVID when she found out and the mistress of the house was pretty angry about it. In her mother's confrontation with the mistress, she uses this HYPERBOLE to describe her daughter: "'But Bay Ly's no threat to you! She offers nothing for a proper man!'... 'She's just a country girl-ignorant, foolish, stupid child,' my mother went on. 'She'll make no claim on your husband. She's just a nanny- a maid who'll never be a bride! Don't think anymore about it! She's nothing! Insignificant!'"(Hayslip, 137). We all know that mothers, in reality, don't think that way about their pregnant, underage daughters.
I talked about the babies without a chance in my first blog post. Hung was one of those babies. Bay Ly should be applauded for letting her baby live. Yes, she did try to abort him, but when she couldn't, she let him live."
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