How does Paragraph 21 contribute to the development of the ideas presented in the text?
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One of his friends, Phung Quang Hoa, wrote in Vietnamese: "I do not know what to write
while there is a feeling of emptiness in my mind."
It demonstrates that many people in the camp were unwilling to provide contact information for
friends to reach them after they had settled permanently in the U. S.
It connects the sense of emptiness experienced by the refugees while in the camp to their inability to
meaningfully unite their past experiences with their present-day lives.