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In chapter 10 the case study was about a man named Vang Xiong, a former Hmong solder. Him and his wife moved to Chicago in 1980, but felt guilty about leaving his brothers and sister back home. Since his moved to Chicago, Vang was have trouble sleep because of his vivid memories about people being killed during his escape from Laos. The first night Vang had trouble sleeping he imagine a cat sitting on the top of his chest and having shortness of breath. The second night his room started to grow darker and a large black cat figure came into his bed and sat on chest. Finally the third night, the tall white skinny female spirit came into his bedroom from the kitchen and laid own top of him.
After several other occasion of Vang waking up screaming

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