“My aunt, in Hanoi for the first time, was afraid of having her picture taken. She said: ‘No, no!’ and turned her face away if someone tried to take a picture of her. I had arranged to telephone a cousin who lives in the country. But when she went to the telephone in her commune, she was afraid to pick it up when it rang. I could not talk to her. I realize that the unfamiliar has become familiar to me.”
