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The amazing Kate Casey.

Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC.

And welcome back for this Saturday series episode.

You know, sometimes you're scrolling through social media and you come across a post by a stranger and suddenly you're so invested in their personal story or that of their own family.

Well, that's what happened to me.

I came across a post shared by Kim Hume.

She said that her father, born and raised in Vietnam, had just discovered a relative

through a genealogy site.

And with that discovery came a truth, long wrapped in silence. His father had been an American

soldier during the Vietnam War. Her grandmother had never given him so much as a name,

not a clue to help him understand the other half of himself. For decades, the story simply ended.

But now, suddenly, it had a new beginning.

So in this episode, Kim takes us inside her father's origin story,

the secrecy, the questions, the ache of not knowing,

and the incredible journey of finding connection where none seemed possible.

We talk about the love story that shaped her family, how her mother and father met and married,

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