After the Chinese pharmacy, I went to Phuong to get some natural detox ointment and a juice mix. He refused to take any money. Nguyen Quoc Chanh and I hung out with him for a long conversation. We talked about the etymology of certain words, Nguyen Dynasty history and, above all, Phuong's experience in Cambodia fighting against the Khmer Rouge. He was so badly injured, he was in the hospital for two years, during which time he couldn't remember anything of his life. Finally released, he couldn't even recognize his mother. Somehow he recovered enough to get accepted into a university in Texas, but the shrapnels in his brain started acting up, so he had to come home.