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By Matt O’Brien / The Bulletin
April 17, 2010
RICHMOND, Calif. — Many men who grew up in Laos have stories of how they became a novice Buddhist monk, donning the orange robes and leaving family homes for the temple.
They served for weeks, months or maybe years, but that was in another land. At the Wat Lao Rattanaram in downtown Richmond,....