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As a child Quang Bao fled Vietnam and lived in a refugee camp with his family. They eventually settled in Sugarland, Texas, and he was in high school when he discovered e. e. cummings. “i like my body when it is with your” set him on the path to becoming a writer. Produced by Studio 360’s Jenny Lawton.

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