So Adam's friend Alima comes from a Thai family, and we were able to get in touch with her family. We're now living in the suburb of a small town known as Buriram. We're surrounded by rice fields, tiny temples and altars, stray dogs, humpbacked, floppy-eared cows, and a whole lot of a language we can make heads or tails of. Noi, the mother, speaks a bit of English, and her husband, Gis, makes himself understood when he needs to. They have an adorable daughter named Sam, who is five and will come running up to you and push her head into your hip. Also in the family is the grandmother, who is constantly weaving, and the grandfather, who wheels himself around on a tricycle thing, as he lost his legs to a landmine near the
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