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Letter from Vietnam

Letter from Vietnam

Doug Crets
Sep 22, 2006
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Saigon takes a lot out of you. The beggars on every corner, people trying to sell you things you don’t need and would never travel thousands of kilometers to buy, which you buy anyway. Like those cone-shaped rice-straw hats that bad television comedies use to portray the archetypal ''Chinaman.'' I see sailors and European yoga women walking around in th…

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