Pauline Nguyen
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164 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3 Feb
Pauline Nguyen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Twice a year from the age of seven to 13, we would bring her school her reports with absolute fear and loathing.
For every B, he caned us once.
For every C, he caned us twice.
And this ritual required us to lay flat on our stomachs and not budge a millimeter until he was finished.
Blow after blow, hacking at the flesh of our buttocks and our thighs.
And when he was done, he threw us a dollar for every A.
My father would find any reason to beat us and sometimes he would beat us for no reason at all.
One of his most well-used and memorable quotes, I created you and I have the power to destroy you.
Yeah, he did that all right.
At 17, I ran away from home and I spent many years hiding from my father.
I would look over my shoulder everywhere that I went, paranoid that familiar faces were following me.
You see, I wanted my fears forgotten, not faced up to.
But there comes a time in your life where you need to overcome your fears by looking at it in the face.
And for the sake of my mother, and for the sake of my brothers, and for all the shame that I had dumped upon my family in the years that I was gone, I reluctantly reconciled with my father.
Out of duty, I would go home to visit, and I hated those visits.
I hated the sense of claustrophobia and the sense of suffocation that I always felt in his presence.
The meetings were always so stifled and false and tense.
But what I hated the most was the overwhelming realization that I had grown up to be just like him.
I too was angry all the time, angry at my loved ones, angry at my work colleagues, angry at the world, angry at myself.
Angry people are very skilled at noticing all that is wrong.
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