By the age of 3, Kacey Vu Shap had experienced unthinkable loss, and in the next two years he would experience so much more. His mother and his younger brother died when he was 2, leaving his maternal grandmother to be his only caregiver. When he was 5, his older sister drowned in a river near their home in Vietnam, and he then learned that his father had died, too. That same year, his grandmother asked him to pack for a trip, which he would later find out was to an orphanage, where he would stay for two years before being adopted by a family in America.
Nearly 25 years later, Mr. Shap returned to Vietnam with friends from college who had talked him into returning to the orphanage. He found himself flooded with the feelings of abandonment he had tried hard to leave there.
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