A LOVE STORY
(in memory of T.W.)

Once upon a time...

...There were a female and a male, born in the Year of Snake, twelve years junior and/or senior, working for The Furama Resort in Danang, Vietnam. It was the 1st ***** Resort of the whole country in 1996. 

The female was the Human Resourses Manager and the male her Assistant. They had worked together days and nights to build a profesional team of  350 Vietnamese staff and about 07 expats, including the female herself. Then, they fell in love, at least, they could feel this love without words.

Unfortunately, they could not go ahead to each other's love. The Hong-Kong Chinese female was still single at her age of 31...but the Vietnamese male was already got married...The matter was the male honestly telling this... face-a-face to the female when their love had been ripe enough that they opened their hearts and souls to compassionately hug each other after one of their worn-out long night working together... nearly at midnight.

Desperately broken-heart...the female wept on her lover's shoulders that moved the male to tears, too.

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Time had passed...the  three-month-training period was almost over...and the male was transferred from The H.R. Department to The Financial Department to take a new position as a Purchasing & Storeroom Manager. Actually, his duty now was taking care of importing 42 containers of facilities for the Resort to welcome its guests on time.

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The male worked as hard as he could, probably like a slave, for he had  loved his job and he was keen in dealing with the Customs and the Ministry of Trade located in Hanoi. He had no more chance to see his love...and she was also very busy with her duty as a H.R. Manager to stop over and talk to him on the 5-minute-break-time or during lunch-time. She stole away from facing him !!! He knew it but what would he could do ?

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Their love story looked as if it had come to an end...

(to be continued)

Nhatthuan - Nguyễn Đăng Hòa