“What makes Julie’s story distinctive is that she approached cancer consciously,” Mark Warren, her editor, said in a telephone interview. During the segment, which was taped in late January and early February, Ms. Yip-Williams’s younger daughter, Isabelle, explained to the CBS correspondent Tracy Smith why she wasn’t too young to discuss her mother’s cancer openly. But the herbalist refused the gold bars he was offered, and Julie came home to her angry grandmother. Upper-class families like Ms. Yip-Williams’s had their assets confiscated by Vietnam’s Communist government. Ms. Yip-Williams’s father became a wholesale vegetable buyer and her mother a manicurist.

Source: New York Times March 22, 2018 16:38 UTC