Lessons on Love, Loss, and Peace from a Cambodian Survivor and Activist

Introduction and Gratitude

• The speaker expresses profound gratitude for the kind introduction by President Kimball and for the audience's presence.

• She thanks Julie and the Taco and family, and Clayton Olsen.

• She playfully notes her struggles with grammar rules, mentioning that for every rule, there's an exception, and for every exception, there are generally more exceptions, making it difficult for people like her.

• She conveys deep gratitude for the continued relevance and readership of her work, especially her first book, First They Killed My Father, which was published in $1999$ and, $25$ years later, is still being read.

• The book has been published in $15$ different languages, a fact that was