Vietnam Ghost Story: Đà Lạt Lovers

A student at the military school  1956

and a literary teacher at the nearby high school

fall in love       Cute:

each day after school the military student left

a love letter on her door   Thao (an orphan)

wrote back and left a love letter reply on the door

 of her small house on the hill

Their love grew like a stack of letters

 They were in love and waited

for Thanh to graduate from military school

  before living as a couple    officially

Unlike Thao  Thanh is from wealth

  and his rich parents insist that

upon graduation  he return home

to the Delta   and marry a local girl of their choosing

   Unable to defy them   he does

Thao  devastated  jumps into a lake

drowns  leaves a letter

with instructions to bury her body

near her house and the memories

of her love for Thanh

   on the love letter hill

Thanhfinds out about her death

   goes to war is   killed

and then buried in Đà Lạt

next to his beloved Thao

 on the hill   per his written wishes

But

the widow  spurned in death

won't leave it at this

 She instructs that his body be removed

and taken back home to the Delta

 What a terrible

   idea

and now his ghost wanders

   Actually

both sites are haunted by their ghosts

and Đà Lạt made the site on the hill

into an attraction you can visit

because why not