Dr. Ngor transferred to another refugee camp, Khao-I-Dang. He worked at a doctor, treating the walk-in patients who generally suffered from malnutrition, disease and depression. Dr. Ngor himself had overcome depression after his escape from Cambodia, and he instilled hope in his patients, talking to them in Khmer, consoling and encouraging them. (Ngor, 1987: 448) After just over a year in the refugee camp, Dr. Ngor met a young Thai-Cambodian woman, who he considered marrying. She asked him to take off the chain with the locket containing a photo of Huoy, however, and when he “explained that (he) was showing (his) respect to Huoy for saving (his) life, the woman became suspicious” and nothing came of it. (Ngor, 1987: 453) The time had come to leave Thailand, and face a new life in a foreign country…the United States.