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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Nursing A Wound With Jake Gyllenhaal | Encore
Are You My Husband? | With Renée Elise Goldsberry
Never Tell Our Business To Strangers | With Ruth Wilson
Who's Allowed To Hold Hands? | With Alicia Keys
Sharing A Cab, And My Toes With Greta Gerwig | Encore
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The Triangle's Sharpest Point | With Zawe Ashton
We'll Meet Again In Five Years | With Regina King
Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends | With Ben Platt
He's Going Back To His Former Wife. Sort Of. | With Marisa Tomei
Rallying To Keep The Game Alive | Live At CitySpace
How 30 Blocks Became 30 Years | With Peter Sarsgaard
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Screens Between Us With Issa Rae | Encore
The Tallest Man I Ever Loved | With Andrew Rannells
Seeing The World Through My Wife's Eyes With David Oyelowo | Encore
My Platonic Romance On The Psych Ward | With Miriam Shor
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