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"My journey from Prague back to Vietnam was long and a very hard journey," she said, remembering how blisters bubbled all over her feet as she carried her 22-month-old daughter in 1951. "We had to walk with my baby 110 kilometers (68 miles) at night to the North Vietnamese government in the jungle where they were based. It took about three weeks."

Vietnam matriarch, now 92, spread piano culture →

He escaped from prison before the uprising in 1945 under which President Ho Chi Minh declared independence from France.

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