Vienchaleun Kettavong, a 71-year-old Asian man from Rush, New York, died on September 23, 2014, and left behind a family that had learned to count on his steady presence—his wife, Saysamone, and their children and grandchildren, whose names appeared in the obituary that followed just days later, along with the quiet fact of a life that began far away in Nong Nam Chanh, Laos.
That Tuesday afternoon in the town of Rush—woods thick enough to swallow sound and distance—he went out squi
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