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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What I Got Wrong About My Parents’ Marriage
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The Marriage Proposal That Wasn’t
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The Healing Power of Love (Island)
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Questions I Can’t Ask My Father
The Tricky Geometry of a Throuple
I Promised God It Was the Last Time
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A Bond Thicker Than Blood
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