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Weekly Contest #151
Dear Reader, I was attempting to take care of my lawn which is generally a lost cause during the six dry months of Summer. The cell phone in my pocket rang. It turned out my daughter, having freshly graduated from Louisiana State, had found employment near me in California. Apparently, the hiring company was in immediate need of her services, and she was required to report for work within a few days. That meant she was obliged to travel by air. And so, the basic reason for the telephone call emerged. Could I, with little notice, fly to Loui...
Weekly Contest #137
Last Email Dearest Long Lost, I think it was ordained in Heaven that your classmate gave you my address in HCMC and you decided to fly from California to Vietnam. Or was it simply magical that we instantly became a pair? (I mean Saigon, if you still prefer that to HCMC). My friends said some bad things about Vietnamese men living abroad who visit their former homeland as tourists – that they bring a pocketful of money in order to find and seduce single women, and then leave, and that I fell into that trap. I faced many questions like this...
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