A lovely story and a happy ending for a young Cambodian orphan with hepatitis B.
By MATTHEW STOLLE, Post-Bulletin Posted July 19
When Chung Eang Lip was 7, his father took him to the market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and abandoned him.
For three days, Lip wandered the city’s streets, hungry and calling for his mother. Lip’s last memory from the ordeal was waking up and seeing his mom hovering over him.
“I was really sick. I didn’t have anything to eat for those three days. I only remember that when I opened my eyes, I saw my mom and that’s all,” said Lip, whose mom took him back to their rural home.
By 13, both of Lip’s parents were dead, and he was largely on his own, living with an older brother. What most people regard as normal family life — or what passed for it in Lip’s life — was largely a thing of the past.
Or so he thought.
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