Hannah Scoccolo remembers eating Vietnamese food and watching cartoons with her cousin, 26-year-old Linda Tran.
After Tran’s family immigrated from Vietnam, Scoccolo said they were pretty much best friends because of their closeness in age. They would spend a lot of time together growing up, picking berries in the summer and being with each other for bigger moments such as the birth of Linda’s son, Austin Tran, 1.
“We’d always hang out in the berry fields and stuff so that was really a fond memory of that I have of us,” Scoccolo told The News Tribune recently. “When I got my tonsils pulled out, [Linda] was the one that stayed with me and kind of nursed me back to health, so we were very close. I just wish I would have taken more time to kind of steer her in the other direction at the time when I was focusing on college, but hindsight is 20/20.”…