REGINA: Tell us about your earliest years.
Christine: In 1976, in the middle of pursuing a medical career, my father realized our family had no future in communist Vietnam. Our French citizenship (passed down through my mother's late father, who had been a French colonel stationed in Vietnam) allowed us to get on a plane and leave for France. My father struggled there for a few years before he came to Florida to start his own civil engineering firm.
..."our family had no future in communist Vietnam."
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