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Thu Nguyen's avatar

Thank you for this. Your writing about bufffalo really moved me. I've been thinking about buffalo for decades now, right after I read The Things They Carried. I had to teach the short stories to 12th graders, and watched my soul die and float away each time I had to read about the way the soldiers shot water buffalo, the buffalo that were supposed to symbolize my Vietnamese people who are otherwise just a body count in the book. The hope I recuperated from these traumatic moments was from the shared outrage my students had, confronted with their emotional Vietnamese 12th grade English teacher. Thanks for providing some beautiful thoughts about buffalo today.

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Jackie Brennan's avatar

It is my official position that fourth graders calling you Emotional Yeti automatically qualifies you as a legend. But then, you've been a legend in my book for years. Thanks for sharing this one, Chris. 🙏

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