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The article Soul Survivor is about Daravuth and Sovanna. After the four years of the Khmer Rouge period, Daravuth was left at an orphaned with many other kids. Daravuth, nickname was Poch, was very bright, hard-working, kind, well-liked, and acted like a mentor to many of the children and orphanage administrator. In 1987, the Vietnamese took over. Daravuth was walking down the road and a women clamming to be his mother was calling out, “Sonny.” He had no idea who she was, but ended up going along with it anyways. Daravuth consider his new family is foster family, since he did not remember any of them as his real family. For many years Daravuth changed his birthday so he would not have to be drafted in to the military. He tried to be smart when

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