Tonight, I'm going to tell you a very famous story from Thailand.

The story was recommended to me by a fan, actually, and I had never heard of it before.

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One morning in the early 1850s, a young man named Mock rode a small boat through a canal in Prakannon, Thailand, which is a very rural community southeast of Bangkok. And Mok was rowing as fast as he possibly could, because where he was going was home and

he could not wait to get there.

So Mock had been away for almost an entire year by this point.

And that was because around a year ago, he'd been drafted into the Thai military and forced

to go fight in a war against the neighboring country of Burma.

And for Mok, getting drafted had really come at like the absolute worst possible time.

Because at the time, his wife, May Knock, had been just a couple of months pregnant with their first child.

And so he had had to just, you know, basically leave her behind to give birth on her own, which was obviously really difficult for her and for him.

Like he wanted to be there for her and he couldn't.

And also this is 1850s in rural Thailand.

So once he was gone, like there were no phones or really any way to send letters back and forth. So really, ever since Mock had left,

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