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Nao Kao's Miscommunication

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Miscommunication, throughout the book, has negatively affected Lia’s health. Also it strongly affected Lia’s recovery once transported back to Merced. Miscommunication also can lead to mistrust for Lia’s recovery. There was a major miscommunication when the hospital was going to release her home in 2 hours, but her family believed she was going to pass away in two hours. Due to the Hmong beliefs, saying that someone is going to die leads to the believed that that person is going be killed. This miscommunication led Nao Kao to try to escape with Lia until the security caught them.

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