Kukkik adopted me after I bought a small bottle of hair conditioner from her family's market stall in Sukhothai. I hung out on a stool as we played and talked. When her Mom invited me back to their house after the store closed, she started jumping up and down with glee begging me to come. Most of our time together was spent in front of her child's version of a English-Thai dictionary. We came upon a picture with all sorts of different fruits and helped each other pronounce the names in English and Thai respectively. Luckily, my Thai has become good enough to share, "We don't have this one in the United States" when we came to fruits like "mangosteens" and "durian" and a few others. Later that evening, we were later joined by Kukkik's sister and her sister's boyfriend.
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