Meet my Mum – a woman shaped by countless reinventions: leaving a war‑torn country, surviving a refugee camp, navigating divorce, and rediscovering who she is. The story of my mum begins in the Kieng Giang province of Southern Vietnam; she is the fourth born child of the family and is the only female amongst her siblings that made it to Australia. On a recent trip back to the village where my mum was born, my aunty brought out some very old photos that she had found. Amongst