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Sao's Legacy

Destin B. Tran

I am a father, writer, and Asian-American immigrant sharing honest reflections on parenting, resilience, and legacy. Through stories of my sons and my own past, I explore lessons of life and the strength to rise against life’s giants.

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The Words That Carry Me

“Thirssty. Thirsty. Thurrssday. Thuersday. Buurd. Berd.”

Sometime in the mid-1990s, I sat at the top of a basement stairway and whispered those words into the dark. The walls were cold and painted a creamy white near the top, but they beca...

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The Day I Became Destin

That thong, th-thong, thong, thong.

The mocking that came with those words echoed in my ears for many, many years of my life. And on some days, I still hear it.

The first time I remember it happening was sometime around sixth grade at...

23 days ago
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What Once Was Spring Became Fall

May 15, 2019. Somewhere in Canby, Oregon.
We pulled over to look at the flowers.

Grandma,
you left me here in the fall,
one week before Thanksgiving.
I will always think about that week.

Thirty plus years with you…
and suddenly...

a month ago
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I Woke Up From a Dream, and Somehow It Became a Story

A few days ago, I had a strangely vivid dream with gunshots echoing so thunderously that they startled me awake. I was sweating, and I went straight to my desk to write it down before I forgot it.

While I was writing, I ended up adding a f...

a month ago
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When My Son Was Bullied, I Became the Boy I Used to Be

On a sunny day in Northeast Portland in the early 1990s,
a basketball was launched from the courts at a grade school called Jason Lee
and hit a small, skinny, shy, timid Vietnamese boy in the head.

That little boy, a few years before...

2 months ago
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    Father of three. Immigrant. American. Grandson. Writer and host of the Sao’s Legacy podcast. Building Sao’s archive through legacy, animals, imagination, and stories worth passing on to my sons.

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