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THE SNEEZIN’ SEASON

HOW TO AVOID CATCHING A COLD— AND WHAT TO DO IF YOU HAVE ONE ALREADY

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then maybe 20 times after that,” says Farrell, 34, who plays the vampire. “I was hoping I wouldn’t like the new script, so I could gripe about Hollywood destroying such a great film, but it’s loads of fun.”

Q: Colin Farrell was

once a box-office leading man. What happened? —Cathy Berry, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.

A: Farrell still has star

power galore—and after sobering up a few years ago, he’s worked hard to prove it. He’s currently sharing the screen with Ed Harris in The Way Back and is set to appear in three more films this year, including a remake of 1985’s Fright Night. “I saw the original when I was about 11 and

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Q: I’ve liked Rachel

Bilson ever since The O.C. When can I see her next? —Anna Lee, New York City

A: Very soon—Waiting

for Forever, a romantic drama, opens Feb. 4. In a case of art imitating life, Bilson, 29, plays a young actress—but she insists that’s where the similarities end. “Emma is a lot harder than I am,” she says. “She’s not happy.” Bilson, on the other hand, is. “Any role makes you question things about yourself, but my life is pretty good right now. The challenge is bringing likability to women who come off as cold or unsympathetic. I think everyone has a soft center, though. Mine’s pretty mushy.”

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WALTER SCOTT ASKS…

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Actress, 31, co-starring with Betty White in The Lost Valentine (CBS, tonight at 9 ET/PT)

WS How did you get along with Betty White? JLH She’s the most phenomenal person I’ve ever

met. Her energy is unreal, and she’s so beautiful, kind, and witty. I grew up watching The Golden Girls, and I was completely obsessed with her. Why should people watch this movie? Romance is one thing that doesn’t go out of style. Speaking of romance—tell us about yours. I met Alex [Beh] at a party. He was the funniest one there. I thought I was done dating for a while, but the heart makes decisions without the brain. Is having a love life difﬁcult in Hollywood? It’s the same bad dates, the same heartbreaks.

Q: Any chance of a

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion?

—Catherine Merriman, Loudonville, N.Y.

A: “I think we’d all be into

it,” says Tatyana Ali, a.k.a. Ashley Banks. “We’ve actually talked about what would’ve happened to our characters after all this time.” Ali, 32, currently plays a divorcée on TV One’s Love That Girl! “I’m deﬁnitely a lot more sophisticated than I was on Fresh Prince,” she says.

‘Lately, just about every day is a bad-hair day.’ —Jeff Bridges, on growing out his mane between roles

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as funny in real life as he is onscreen? —Lisa Marie, Los Angeles

A: Absolutely. But he

knows when to be serious, too. “My wife and I have a rule,” says Vaughn, 40, currently starring in The Dilemma. “If we have an

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issue, we leave the funny stuff at the door.” These days, he adds, he’s more interested in paciﬁers than punch lines: “I turn every conversation back to my daughter, Locklyn.”

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Q: I enjoy Brad

Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel. What else has he done? —J. M., Omaha A: Meltzer is probably

best known for his many books on secret codes and conspiracies. His latest is the novel The Inner Circle. “Here’s an exclusive clue,” he reveals. “Look for ‘355’ in the book. It’s the code name for a woman who helped George Washington with his spy ring in the Revolutionary War.”

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DRAGON TALES

Dancers chase away evil spirits at Chinese New Year parades.

P DVDs RED ($29) Seasoned pros having a great time doing what they do best: That’s both a description of this action comedy’s plot (in which retired CIA agents reunite to battle a high-level conspiracy) and applause for its cast, which includes Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich. Totally ridiculous but totally fun, it’s a welcome diversion.

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Happy New Year—Again!

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for a do-over: Celebrate the Chinese New Year on Feb. 3, the beginning of the lunar year. The Chinese mark the occasion with parades and parties—and a egf long list of traditions intended to bring fortune in the months ahead. So if you could use a little luck in the Year of the Rabbit, here are a few customs to observe: 1. Sweep for success. Clean your house from top to bottom to expel the dust and disappointments of the past year and usher in a bright future. Decorate with plants or ﬂowers, symbolic of rebirth. But remember: All work must be done by midnight on Feb. 2. Swing a Swiffer on New Year’s Day and you’ll push luck right out the door. 2. Dress for the occasion. Buy new clothes to wear on New Year’s Day; they represent new beginnings. Even better, get something red—it’s considered a lucky color. 3. Add luck to your menu. Have dinner on Chinese New Year’s Eve with your family, consuming fortune-boosting foods like nian gao (sweet sticky rice cakes), dumplings, and a whole ﬁsh, symbolic of progress, togetherness, and abundance. For more traditions (and a dumpling recipe), go to Parade.com/newyear. —Daryl Chen

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Set in a haunted New England town, Hoffman’s novel has its share of lovers and dreamers, many of them undone by desire or fate. It also has plenty of dangers, some natural but more often human. Spirit animals, apparent monsters, and apparitions—including a child who drowned long ago—ﬁgure throughout. But there’s nothing ethereal about this spellbinding exploration of innocence, devotion, and experience.

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I read that chocolate contains caffeine. Yet I’ve also read that the stimulant in chocolate has a different chemical composition from caffeine. Can you explain? Eating chocolate neither keeps me awake nor boosts my energy, but caffeinated beverages such as coffee certainly do. —Nancy Sharp, Salt Lake City

Caffeine (mostly in coffee, less in tea, and a little in chocolate), theophylline (mainly in tea), and theobromine (chieﬂy in chocolate) belong to the same class of compounds—mild stimulants. However, they vary signiﬁcantly in their action. Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system (CNS), theophylline stimulates the CNS differently and to a lesser degree, and theobromine does not stimulate the CNS at all. Send your questions to Parade.com/askmarilyn Visit us at PARADE.COM

LOVE CAN STAND THE TEST OF TIME.

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Sunday with... People often think of you as the villainous Hannibal Lecter. Can you tell us something sweet about yourself? I’m always buying gifts and ﬂowers for my wife. She appreciates that, and then I get rewards. She makes me breakfast and brings it to me when I’m in bed.

says that solitude and California are his preferred states. Though he and his third wife, former antiques dealer Stella Arroyave, live in Malibu, “I don’t have a single friend who’s an actor,” the 73-yearold Welshman admits. “But I enjoy working with them.” His latest movie, The Rite, has the Oscar winner (for The Silence of the Lambs) scaring audiences again. But at home, he tells Kate Meyers, he’s just a reality TV–loving pussycat.

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characteristically Welsh about you? There is something characteristically not Welsh: I don’t play sports. I don’t root for any team. I’m not interested and I never was. I think there’s a microchip missing in my brain. Someone said, “Oh, you ought to take up golf; a lot of actors play golf.” So I got some lessons. I was never so bored in all my life. You seem very ﬁt, though. Do you work out? Yes, I do weights, the treadmill, that sort of thing. About 90 minutes ﬁve days a week. Any guilty pleasures that you indulge in? No, I don’t think so. Oh, God, I sound very boring. Not at all…but let’s just say I don’t picture you watching a lot of American television. Oh, I love it! American Idol, Dancing 6 • January 30, 2011

Anthony Hopkins The acclaimed actor likes everything about his adopted country—starting with American Idol fge with the Stars—I watch all that stuff. The other one I like is The Apprentice. I just think it’s a hoot. When I first came here, I used to watch I Love Lucy and The Andy Grifﬁth Show. I’ve been a movie fan all my life, especially American movies. And I love Westerns; I’ve just TiVo’d two John Wayne movies. You also paint. How did that come about?

I used to draw in my scripts with colored ink. Before we got married, my wife found all these scripts and said that for the wedding I should do 75 paintings and give them as party gifts. After that, she said, “You really are good, and you ought to paint.” Now I’ve got a permanent gallery in Hawaii.

You became an American citizen in 2000, and when you came here in the early 1970s you said you felt “at home.” What about the U.S. made you feel that way? I’ve thought a lot about that lately. When I was a kid, I was very backward in school; I had the lowest marks. And I didn’t have any kids to play with in the playground. I just didn’t ﬁt in anywhere. I became an actor to see if that would help me to feel at peace with myself, but I never did. I felt I was a complete outsider in my own country. I came to California to be in a movie, and I liked the weather, the anonymity, the spaciousness of America. You can do whatever you like here. So, symbolically, I ran away from that playground and came to a bigger one. You’ve talked about driving around in the States—what do you drive and what do you listen to? My wife and I have an SUV and like to wander. We both like country-western music—Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton. What’s better in your seventies? [Laughs] I’m very happy, that’s all I can say.

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Puzzles

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WordBlazer Find the hidden words that connect to form a trail from word No. 1 to No. 2, etc. Letters link horizontally and vertically. Start anywhere. Trail of Clues

Letters

1. The key to your virtual doors

2. The ﬂag no one wants to wave

3. Ethel with the brassy pipes

4. The game of love for many of us

5. What you call a real whopper

6. Popular as a fourth dimension

7. What smooths the way for skaters 7 8. The color of violets, to the poet

9. Madonna’s major preoccupation 7 10. The bunch wrought with wrath 6 11. Daylights that ﬂee when scared 6 12. That sweet, embraceable ewe

13. Enshrined as the laziest of names 5

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January 30, 2011 • 7

The Cold Wars

It’s that drippy, achy time of year. Ugh. Here’s how to arm yourself for battle. BY

Jennifer Ackerman

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rapping a dirty sock around your

neck. Drinking the milk of a woman who has given birth to a boy. Putting skunk oil on your chest. Sipping elephant-dung tea. Throughout history, humankind has come up with lots of wacky “treatments” for the common cold. And modern science hasn’t fared much better: Even though it’s the world’s most prevalent illness, we still don’t have a cure. Dr. Birgit Winther, an otolaryngologist and part of a coldresearch team at the University of Virginia, is one of the top experts on the subject. For 30 years, this tidy, petite scientist has studied the untidy subject of sneezes, coughs, and runny noses. She’s the kind of

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fearless researcher who weighs dirty tissues, harvests mucus from swollen nostrils, and smears it on phones and light switches. Not a glamorous job, but it’s all in the name of vanquishing a universal—and universally debilitating—disease. Each of us gets as many as 200 colds in a lifetime, adding up to some ﬁve years of sickness and as much as a year in bed. Colds annually send Americans to the doctor 100 million times, account for over 1.5 million ER visits, and keep kids home from school more than 20 million days. The estimated yearly cost? A staggering $40 to $60 billion. Despite the fact that colds are ubiquitous, we’re surprisingly clueless about their causes and treatments. Here, at the height of the sick season, are Winther’s six truths about the common cold.

We’re our own worst enemies.

“For years, scientists thought cold symptoms resulted from damage done by the cold viruses themselves,” Winther says. As it turns out, all that sneezing, coughing, and congestion is actually caused by our own bodies. In response to an intruding virus, our immune systems pump out chemicals that cause our noses to run, heads to throb, and throats to swell. “One cold differs from another because of the way the host body responds,” Winther says. That explains why you may come down with a killer cold while your spouse has barely a snifﬂe, even though you both have the same virus. It also explains why some immunityboosting products may not help. “Getting your immune cells to work better could result in a stronger inﬂammatory response and more exaggerated symptoms,” Winther says. A colleague of hers once took immunity-enhancing drugs to speed his recovery, and “he’d never been so sick in his life!”

Your mother was right: Wash your hands—and don’t touch your face!

To avoid getting sick, Winther washes her hands often, especially after contact with anyone who’s ill or after events that involve hand-shaking. She also tries not to touch her face, especially her nose and eyes, where viruses like to enter our bodies. This is tougher than it sounds: Studies suggest that many of us touch our faces hundreds of times a day and—eww—pick our noses as often as ﬁve times an hour. Even health-care providers are guilty. Winther’s colleagues secretly observed university medical staff during a one-hour lecture—and found that one-third of them rubbed their eyes and picked their noses. Visit us at PARADE.COM

Don’t touch that doorknob, either!

The best way to not get a cold, Winther says, is easy: Be touchy about what you touch. In their now-famous 2007 studies, she and her colleagues found that cold viruses brought into hotel rooms by guests found their way onto door handles, pens, light switches, faucets, remote controls, and telephones —and stayed there for up to 18 hours. “Surfaces are far more important than we ever imagined in the spread of colds,” Winther says. When someone is sick in her home, she scrubs frequently touched surfaces at least once a day, either with a general cleanser or plain soap and water. So how has the doctor fared in her own cold war? In the past couple of years, Winther has beaten the odds and come down with just one cold.

4 Simple remedies are still the best. “Treat the individual symptoms that bother you most,” Winther advises. Her step-by-step plan: At the ﬁrst sign of symptoms, take ibuprofen to ease sore throat, headache, and malaise. If a stuffy nose is a problem, add an OTC nasal spray. For a runny

nose, use a prescription spray (especially useful if you must be around people the ﬁrst three days of a cold, the most contagious time). Old-style antihistamines, such as Benadryl or Chlor-Trimeton, can also alleviate con congestion and sneezes

but may make you drowsy. Whatever you do, Winther cautions, do not take antibiotics. They kill bacteria, not viruses. Doctors prescribe them more than 40 million times a year, which has led to more lethal, drug-resistant strains of bacteria.

There IS no cure for the common cold—not yet anyway.

Though Winther and her co-workers have researched countless remedies over the years, “they’ve all been dead ends.” To wit: The “killer” tissues that zapped cold viruses —but made people cough. Or the medication that shortened colds by a day—but made birth-control pills go haywire. And all those concoctions of goldenseal, garlic, and other natural ingredients that are sold at health-food stores? Still unproven. For years, experts held high hopes for antiviral drugs, which either attack viruses directly or interfere with their ability to latch on to cells. Alas, Winther sighs, “cold viruses are smarter than we are.” They hide in our cells and do much of their work before our symptoms appear. By the time we realize that we have a cold and take an antiviral, it’s too late. What about a vaccine? Colds are caused by a menagerie of hundreds of different viruses. Since vaccines are designed to target only a few strains, we’d still be vulnerable to the others. continued on page 12

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Honey, I Shrunk the

everything about the super bowl—the audience (106 million viewers), the TV advertising dollars (more than $170 million in 2010), and of course the linemen (377 NFL players topped 300 pounds this season)—is huge, but your party dishes don’t have to be. These bite-size nibbles are big on taste. BY GEORGE DURAN author of Take This Dish and Twist It PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARCUS NILSSON

2 boneless chicken breasts Salt and pepper Vegetable oil 4 Tbsp butter 4 Tbsp hot-wing sauce, like Frank’s RedHot 1 Tbsp white vinegar 2 cups blue-cheese dressing Celery, for garnish

1. Dry each chicken breast 1

Chipotle ’n’ Cheese Sliders 1 lb ground beef 1/2 medium onion, ﬁnely chopped 3 Tbsp tomato paste Salt and pepper 1 cup mayonnaise 2 Tbsp chipotle hot sauce, like Tabasco Olive oil 12 dinner rolls, halved 12 leaves baby lettuce greens 3 medium vine tomatoes, cut into 1/2-inch slices 12 mini slices medium cheddar cheese (or six regular slices, halved)

1. In a medium bowl,

combine beef, onion, tomato paste, 2 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp pepper; use hands to mix. Make 12 patties, about 2 inches wide. 2. In a small bowl, mix mayonnaise and chipotle hot sauce until well combined; set aside. 3. Lightly toast dinner rolls in a toaster oven. Meanwhile, cook patties on medium-high heat in olive oil in a nonstick sauté pan or griddle, about 2 minutes per side. 4. Spoon chipotle mayo onto the bottom buns. Top with a few leaves of baby greens, one slice of tomato, a meat patty, and a slice of cheese; top with bun. Stick a long toothpick through each slider; serve with extra chipotle mayo in a bowl.

with a paper towel; cut into strips 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick and 3 to 4 inches long. Season with salt and pepper. 2. Heat a nonstick skillet on high and add oil to coat bottom. Working in batches, fry chicken strips until browned, about 2 minutes per side, adding more oil as needed. Set aside on a dish lined with a paper towel. 3. In a small saucepan, melt butter; mix in hot sauce and vinegar. Once combined, turn off heat and set aside. 4. Fill six shot glasses with 1 Tbsp blue-cheese dressing each. Stick a toothpick or short skewer into the end of each chicken strip and generously coat it with hot sauce. Place two chicken fingers and a celery stalk inside each shot glass. Or serve on a platter with a dipping bowl of bluecheese dressing and celery sticks on the side. MAKES: 30–36 PER 4-FINGER SERVING: 410 calories, 41g fat,

55mg cholesterol, 880mg sodium, 4g carbs, 7g protein

MAKES: 12 sliders PER SLIDER:

340 calories, 21g fat, 45mg cholesterol, 670mg sodium, 23g carbs, 16g protein

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3 Tiny Twinkie Strawberry Trifles 2 cups diced fresh strawberries, plus more for garnish 1 tsp sugar 2 Twinkies 2 biscotti, any ďŹ&#x201A;avor 1 cup Cool Whip, thawed

1. Place diced strawberries in a glass bowl and sprinkle with sugar. Mix gently with a spoon and set aside. 2. Crumble Twinkies into a small bowl; set aside. 3. Place biscotti in a resealable plastic bag; using the back of a large spoon, crush into coarse crumbs. Pour into a bowl. 4. Set out eight shot glasses or mini parfait glasses. Using half of the crumbled Twinkies, evenly divide among the shot glasses. Using half of the strawberries, create a second layer. Top each with 1 Tbsp Cool Whip and end with crumbled biscotti. Repeat with all the layers; garnish with strawberry slices. 5. Refrigerate for at least an hour (can make one day ahead); serve with espresso spoons or similar. MAKES: 8 triďŹ&#x201A;es PER TRIFLE: 100

calories, 3.5g fat, 5mg cholesterol, 60mg sodium, 16g carbs, 1g protein

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But there IS hope.

“Until recently, I thought I’d done everything I could with the common cold,” Winther says. “I was ready to retire.” Then along came genomics. “Suddenly there was this new science that could help us prevent colds based on our genetic individuality.” Different people may benefit from different treatments or tolerate certain drugs better, she says. “We can look at how their genes affect these things and tailor medication accordingly.” For example, one strain of the “good” probiotic bacteria known as Lactobacillus GG appears to reduce cold symptoms by tamping down the body’s inflammatory responses. But does it work better in some people than others? Winther is using genomic testing to find out. In a recent study, she gave subjects Lactobacillus GG in juice form, then took samples of their blood and nasal washes and 12 • January 30, 2011

analyzed their gene activity to see which genes grew active in response to the cold virus. As for a vaccine,“Ten years ago, I would never have thought we could make one,” she says, “but with genetic technology, we can juggle antigens—the building blocks of vaccines—in ways we couldn’t imagine before. So eventually, it may be possible to make a vaccine that can handle hundreds of different viruses.”

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DON’T TRY THESE AT HOME Over the centuries, people have gone to extremes to get rid of their sniffles and aches. A few radical remedies: ✸ Smearing goose grease on your chest and wrapping it with flannel ✸ Rubbing the soles of your feet with tallow and turpentine, and holding them against a wood stove ✸ Getting passed three times under a horse’s belly ✸ Having a fish skin tied to your feet ✸ Cupping, followed by blood-letting ✸ Going to sleep wearing a pair of cold, wet socks with a pair of thick, dry socks on top of them ✸ Stuffing your nostrils with cut garlic cloves ✸ Pressing a warm, peeled hard-boiled egg to your forehead ✸ Eating snakeskin

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Good Morning, Vietnam

The photographer who captured an iconic image of war also knows where to find, and give, joy

Vietnam last fall, I wrestled with one question: Will they hate me? I was going there to report on the long-term legacy of Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide that has had a devastating effect on U.S. veterans, and the Vietnamese. And I’m an American. Two strikes against me, right? It was dark and muggy when I landed in Hanoi. The ﬁrst thing I noticed was how many people were smiling at me in the airport. “You American?” a middle-aged man asked as I waited for my bag. I nodded, and he held out his hand. “Welcome,” he said. “Come again.” Early the following morning, I met Nick Ut. We were both fellows with the Vietnam Reporting Project and would be teaming up for the next eight days. Most Americans don’t know Nick by name, but if you lived through the Vietnam War, you know why he matters. On June 8, 1972, he stood in the middle of Route 1 in South Vietnam and aimed his camera at 9-year-old Kim Phuc as she ran toward him, naked and screaming. A napalm bomb had dropped near her home in Trang Bang village. Click, click, click. Nick rushed the little girl to a hospital, which saved her life. His photo of her is widely credited with helping to end the war.

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Taking stock: Nick Ut shares his work with fans in Hanoi.

He’s been a staff photographer with AP for 45 years, but he is a rock star in our profession—and in Vietnam, where he was born. He became a U.S. citizen in 1984, yet it was clear from our phone conversations that he has never stopped loving the people of his homeland. I was nervous about working with Nick. I knew that he was only 21 when he photographed Kim Phuc, that he lost two brothers in the war and had been wounded three times. I imagined him hardened beyond his years, and wondering why on earth he was teamed up with chirpy Midwestern me. Day after day, Nick and I came

face-to-face with suffering I’d only seen in pictures. We spent hours in Friendship Village, which the U.S. veteran George Mizo founded for children of Agent Orange. Two days later, we visited a community of women veterans who had been sprayed with the dioxin in the war and came home sick, often sterile, and sometimes insane. At one point during a meeting with disabled children, I had to walk outside. It was just too much. Minutes later, I felt Nick’s gentle hand on my shoulder. Then he went back in and said something in Vietnamese that made the kids laugh. By the third evening, Nick was lobbying for an early-morning walk around Hoan Kiem Lake, near our hotel in Hanoi. Hundreds of Viet-

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early, Connie!” Nick said, his accent punctuating his enthusiasm. “By 6! I want you to meet the women who sing. They will sing to you.” I looked at him like he was nuts. “There is a lot of happiness here, Connie,” he said. “You will see.” The next morning, the sky was drizzling and Nick was beaming. He grabbed my sleeve and we raced across the lanes of Hanoi traffic that swerve but never stop. Almost immediately, I heard them. The women were in their ﬁfties, maybe older. A few held brightly colored umbrellas as they danced and sang in pitch-perfect harmony. After the third song, one of the women smiled and reached for my hands. Then she started to sing. Back and forth we swayed, two women, worlds apart, in the rain. I looked over at Nick, who couldn’t stop grinning. “What is she singing?” I said. “What is she saying to me?” “She is singing that you are friends,” Nick said. I let go of her hands, and hugged her tight. To see Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize– winning 1972 photo of Kim Phuc and more shots from his and Connie Schultz’ stay in Vietnam, go to Parade.com/schultz Read Schultz’ series on Agent Orange at cleveland.com/agentorange

PHOTO BY CONNIE SCHULTZ/COURTESY OF THE VIETNAM REPORTING PROJECT

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