Holiday listening: Anh Nguyen Austen's story of rescue and reinvention

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When Anh Nguyen Austen was a small girl, her family fled South Vietnam on a boat which met a once-in-a-century storm in the South China sea. When all on board thought hope was lost, they were rescued.

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