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Hey, we understand that with the coronavirus lockdown, the social distancing that comes with it, it's a trying time for everyone.
So we wanted to share something in your dear sugars feed to give you a little break and remind you that there's still a lot of good in the world.
Its from WBUR's podcast Kind World, a show about transformative acts of kindness.
So without further ado, check out this episode of Kind World.
Welcome to Kind World.
I'm Yasmin Amr.
And I'm Andrea Aswahe.
Wars have obvious consequences, and to get a sense of how devastating a war is or was, we usually measure that by numbers, like how many casualties or injuries and how long did it last.
But wars leave behind other deep scars, many much more difficult to count, but they're no less painful.
In this week's kind world, we have a story of the sacrifice one woman was forced to make and a stranger's mission to help her regain what she lost.
Win Thi Depp was on the front lines during the Vietnam War, fighting a different kind of battle.
She was the sole provider for her sick father and four younger sisters.
And she was trying to keep her own daughter alive because I was afraid.
Of many people in Vietnam telling me that if I don't send my baby away, they will come in here and maybe she will be killed.
Depp's daughter, Feng Mai, or Mai, was also the daughter of an american sergeant named Joe O'Neill, who Depp met at the army base where she worked.
They had a romantic relationship, but in 1973, the US ordered all of its troops out of Vietnam.
Joe went back to America.
Depp, who was two months pregnant, was left behind.
Then she found herself with an impossible decision.