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“I’m sorry to hear about your husband and your sons.” “Sorry for what?” Mrs. Hoa’s voice was shrill. “Whoever said my husband was dead? No one saw him die. No one saw my youngest son die, either. They’re alive, and no one like you is going to tell me otherwise.” === Everyone needs a doctor or a lawyer, but who needs a philosopher? We can get advice for free from the priest.” === “There’s no doubt about it. They don’t believe in God and they don’t believe in money.” “But they believe in taking other people’s money,” my father said. === “I haven’t come back,” he said. “I’ve come here.” “You haven’t left this world yet?” === “The dead move on,” he had said, coiled in his armchair, hands between his thighs. “But the living, we just stay here.” === “Are you going to be the kind of person who always pays the asking price?” my mother demanded. “Or the kind who fights to find out what something’s really worth?”