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RACHEL CHU: Thanks for meeting me here.

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Don't worry about them.

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They're half-deaf, and they only speak Hokkien.

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My mom taught me how to play.

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She told me mahjong would teach me important life skills:

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negotiation, strategy, cooperation.

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NICK'S MOM: You asked me here.

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I assume it's not for a mahjong lesson.

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Pong. My mother taught me too.

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RACHEL CHU: I know Nick told you the truth about my mom,

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but you didn't like me the second I got here.

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Why is that?

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NICK'S MOM: There is a Hokkien phrase, "Kaki lang."

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It means our own kind of people,

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and you're not our own kind.

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RACHEL CHU: Because I'm not rich?

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Because I didn't go to a British boarding school,

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or I wasn't born into a wealthy family?

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RACHEL CHU: You're a foreigner—American,

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and all Americans think about is their own happiness.

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RACHEL CHU: Don't you want Nick to be happy?

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NICK'S MOM: It's an illusion.

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We understand how to build things that last,

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something you know nothing about.

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RACHEL CHU: You don't know me.

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NICK'S MOM: I know you're not what Nick needs.

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RACHEL CHU: Well, he proposed to me yesterday.

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He said he'd walk away from his family and

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from you for good.

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Don't worry, I turned him down.

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NICK'S MOM: Only a fool folds a winning hand.

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RACHEL CHU: There's no winning.

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You made sure of that because,

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if Nick chose me, he would lose his family,

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and if he chose his family,

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he might spend the rest of his life resenting you.

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NICK'S MOM: So you chose for him?

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RACHEL CHU: I'm not leaving because I'm scared or

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because I think I'm not enough.

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Because, maybe for the first time in my life,

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I know I am.

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I just love Nick so much.

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I don't want him to lose his mom again.

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So I just wanted you to know that,

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one day, when he marries another lucky girl

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who is enough for you,

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and you're playing with your grandkids

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while the tanhuas are blooming,

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and the birds are chirping,

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that it was because of me.

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A poor—raised by a single mother—low-class immigrant,

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a nobody.