She details an encounter with one her mother’s former students who, upon seeing Bui in the doorway, looks back to Bui’s mother, with a smile on her face, points to the door, and says, “She looks like you, but not as pretty.” Bui uses the initial picture to move from her sketch table to the trip to Việt Nam, highlighting the ways that the image or herself is enwrapped with the image she has of her mother but also highlighting that she does not know as much about her mother as she thinks she does. As she holds the image, she says, “People always say I look just like her.” Bui next takes us to Việt Nam when her and her mother went back. Following the opening panel, she focuses on herself holding a picture of her mother, as a child, lying on the ground on a beach with plants behind her.
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