Farewell to Saigon. To its noise and its kindness, its heat and its color, the faces I’ve come to know like familiar streets.

Farewell to loved ones who made this city feel like home.

A new chapter is beginning now — in unfamiliar lands, with new things to learn and new people to meet.

Saigon will always be where a particular version of me was formed. I carry it forward.

— Thiện Minh