Moon Orchid’s arrival made Brave Orchid realize even more how unappreciative her children were of Chinese customs. This surprise was ironic because, the narrator says, they were almost identical, “with faces like mirrors.” When the sisters finally met, each could not believe how old the other had become. Once the plane arrived, they waited four hours for Moon Orchid to appear.
She used her concentration to help keep her sister’s plane in the air, just as she did to keep her son’s ship afloat in Vietnam. She brought Moon Orchid’s daughter and two of her own children with her. Brave Orchid arrived at the airport nine hours ahead of time. The narrator describes how at age sixty-eight, her mother, Brave Orchid, reunited with her sister, Moon Orchid, after thirty years.
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