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A Teen Refugee’s Flight to Freedom From Communist Cambodia
Courtney Joyner / April 22, 2019 / 14 Comments
For six years, the only luxuries Bopha Sayavong dreamed of were peace, quiet, food, and shelter.
It wasn’t until she landed in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a refugee from communist Cambodia on Oct. 31, 1981, that she began to imagine the luxuries freedom would bring.
Even after arriving in the U.S., though, life was not easy.
“We just build it up from there, little by little, to figure it out,†Sayavong, now 59, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview from Marion, Illinois.
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