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Kim

This character is a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl who begins the community garden in honor of her father, who died before she was born.

Ana

This character is an older woman who finds herself feeling guilty after her actions jeopardize a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl’s plants, having assumed the young girl had buried drugs or money in the vacant lot. This character then helps keep the plants alive.

Wendell

This character is a school janitor who ends up helping to keep the nine-year-old Vietnamese girl’s plants alive. This character’s son was shot and killed, and his wife died in a car accident, and as a result, this character is a fairly depressed individual.

Gonzalo

This character is a Guatemalan immigrant who moved here with his father. A few years later, the rest of his family moved in, as well, and this character found himself taking care...

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