Kacey Vu Shap had no desire to return to the Vietnamese orphanage of his youth. As a child, whenever he told people he was adopted, he would say that he came “premade” — that he spontaneously appeared one day at the Baltimore airport, greeted by a new family bearing flowers and kisses. “It was easier to sanitize my story by speaking only of my life as Kacey, who was loved and wanted, than to tell people of my life as Vu, who was abandoned and undesired,” Kacey wrote in his Modern Love essay. Nearly 25 years later, Kacey found himself back at the orphanage with his three best friends and a newfound understanding of what form love can take.
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Comfort, If Not A Cure | With Nazanin Boniadi
Another Voice Had Come Between Us | With Catherine O'Hara
Refreshing A Mother's Memory With Love | With Zoe Saldana
Playing Role Reversal With My Therapist | With Isabelle Huppert
Security In A Bright Yellow Suitcase | With Christina Hendricks
Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked | With William Jackson Harper
Part II: My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me | With André Holland
Part I: You May Want to Marry My Husband
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A Kiss Deferred | With Joanna Kulig
What The Sea Took Away | With Carmen Ejogo
Maternal Wisdom (5 Pounds' Worth) | With Gillian Anderson
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I Will Be Your Mother Figure | Encore
The Shirt Stays On | With Finn Wittrock
A Young Man's Game | With Stanley Tucci
On A Serpentine Road | With Michelle Rodriguez
A Forgotten Prayer, Answered | With Mira Sorvino
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