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When A Mai, Or Any Other Vietnamese Enters Your Life, Consider Yourself Super-Lucky
Your life will be rich beyond belief, because she will open you eyes to the beauty around you.
I know that Jason Provencio believes he has found, wed, and become a father with the most beautiful Mai in the whole world, his bride, as he refers to her.
The name Mai, in Vietnamese means, apricot, plum, or plum flower.
I have yet to meet a Vietnamese person who is not beautiful, an inner beauty, soft and as delicate as the driven snow.
When we first arrived in Canberra house prices were rising crazily and we did what we Rattrays are wont to do. We panic-bought, and spent the next ten years fixing up shitty workmanship.
I swear the brick veneer home was built with sapling wood which expanded and contracted with the seasons, always surprising us. We loved that — NOT!
The unseasoned wood allowed for lots of cracked walls, not to mention the doors that on occasion wouldn’t shut, and in other seasons, would fly open, when you didn’t want them to.
It was bodgy building at its best, and a handyman’s nightmare, always.
