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Maid in Manila

Anthony Spaeth
Mar 22, 2010
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I last saw my former maid Erlinda, more commonly known as Linda, in 1988, on a pleasure trip to Manila a year or two after my family moved from there to New Delhi. She was still working in our old neighborhood and, as I heard it, had got pregnant by the security guard at the Polish embassy next to the house of her new employer.

I arranged to meet Linda o…

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