“When it was time to introduce Rachel’s dad to Hung’s dad, they realized that they had a problem. Rachel’s dad was fluent in Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, Polish and German (the last of which he refused to speak), and Ba Anh was fluent in Vietnamese, English, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean. They did not have a language in common.”
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