Anh Nguyen Austen

And the nun had noticed her and then mentioned to my father's family, there's a really nice girl here.

And so they send my grandfather to go and meet her, and then the grandfathers kind of created the courtship.

Yes, and mostly around the families and the two grandfathers.

So my grandfather was very fond of my parents' marriage, and he remembers it exactly.

The courtship is six months and nine days.

Oh, they got on really well.

My father was very debonair and very handsome and very learned and sophisticated.

So when he kind of arrived at the door, kind of walked out and he's quite tall because he had some French blood in him and came to meet her.

You know, her father told her right away, just put on something nice and go out and bring out the tea.

And then he did also give them time.

I think they sent the two of them to the second floor and they got to talk.

And my mother was very impressed with his conversation and sophistication.

Oh, yes.

My father was a very romantic, very French-influenced person.

So the courtship is really just lots of letters.

He wrote a lot of letters.

And from what my mother said, they only got like one day trip together in Paris, which is near Vung Tau, a very popular tourist town now.

So that was around that.

And then otherwise, she just had lots of letters from him and he would write about it.

walks in the woods and he had all these stories and kind of very romantic prose.