When asked for her date of birth at a hospital, Foua gave the date October 6, 1944. Foua is quite..

When asked for her date of birth at a hospital, Foua gave
the date October 6, 1944. Foua is quite sure that October is correct, since
she was told by her parents that she was born during the season in which the
opium fields are weeded for the second time. She invented the precise day of
the month, like the year, in order to satisfy the many Americans who have
evinced an abhorrence of unfilled blanks on the innumerable forms the Lees have
encountered since their admission to the United States. Nao Kao Lee has a
first cousin who told the immigration officials that all nine of his

When asked for her date of birth at a hospital, Foua gave
the date October 6, 1944. Foua is quite sure that October is correct, since
she was told by her parents that she was born during the season in which the
opium fields are weeded for the second time. She invented the precise day of
the month, like the year, in order to satisfy the many Americans who have
evinced an abhorrence of unfilled blanks on the innumerable forms the Lees have
encountered since their admission to the United States. Nao Kao Lee has a
first cousin who told the immigration officials that all nine of his children
were born on July 15, in nine consecutive years, and this information was duly
recorded on their resident alien documents.