Book One of The Light From Within
Before I Became a Refugee Girl
Life in Laos During the Vietnam War Era
Available NowBefore she became a refugee, she was a girl growing up in a small village in Laos. This is where her story begins.
Before Everything Changed
I grew up in rural Laos as the oldest of six children. Our family had little. Life was shaped by family, work, school, rice fields, animals, weather, and the daily work of having barely enough.
It was simply my life.
This book tells the story of those years before my family left Laos, before refugee became a word attached to me, and before I knew how far life would carry me.
A Word from Samly
I wrote this book because I did not want the story of my life to begin with the word refugee.
Before I was a refugee, I was a daughter, a sister, and a village girl. No single chapter of a person's life tells the whole story.
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