It's been ten days since he arrived in Vietnam.
And as Hao promised, he came back with Skip's mail, plus cardboard boxes and some commissary for his pantry.
But it was Kathy's letter that remained with me. She writes deep thoughtful letters to Skip. To me it looks like Kathy doesn't really have someone to talk to over there about her deepest thoughts. And I know that it's not that she isn't friendly. But instead, it could be that she finds it hard to connect with just anybody else. She finds it hard to open her heart to just anyone, and I think probably it has something to do with the issue of trust.
If I were her, I guess I would be cautious in talking to people. That's my number one rule when I am not in my own land, not in my own country. And this makes it even more complicated. She is in a land at war, and would never know who her enemies are.
And like me, I know it's safer to talk about the things that bothers me to friends back home, or in some other country; just not with just anyone from where I am at. This is just being careful. This is staying out of danger.
So, she writes letters frequently. But as she said at the end of her letter:
"Are you even reading this?"
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