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Years later, safe in Vermont, but tormented by the thought that he may never see his parents in Vietnam, he wrote, "I sat on the hill, surrounded by trees in their spring blossom, looking over the pond at Bennington College, listening to the gentle voice of Arturo Vivante blending with the morning air as he lectured on Tolstoy's great novel War and Peace. I felt like one of the characters."