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Vietnamese Diary

5 March 2015

11:30 AM

5 March 2015

11:30 AM

I had been loitering around some dreadlocked types, working up the courage to join the conversation, when the people smuggler sat down next to me. Actually, that might not be an entirely fair description: Lanh, which is not his real name, left Vietnam as a refugee in 1980 and managed to help more than thirty others escape with him.

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