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Have you ever wonder what it would be like to live in a war time. In “First They Killed My Father” she is talking about what her and her family went thru when she was little. In “First They Killed My Father” Ung discusses the impact of war Ung was forced to work as a kid, lost her childhood memory, and she doesn’t have any ownership of her possessions.

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