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Hi everyone,

The quoted article is fictional, of course. Sitting in Tel Aviv, I'm lying nonstop. Never been anywhere near Taiwan. All those photos are stolen from the internet. Now I go get some lox and bagel for breakfast.

Linh

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Sep 25·edited Sep 25

I did some money laundering there a year or so ago - it's a good story - but true !

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Sep 24Liked by Linh Dinh

Are you going to identify as a Jew so you can Israeli citizenship?

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Hi PhilH,

What's this identify shit?! You’re either born a Jew or you ain't. I'm so Jewish I was born without foreskin. No rabbi ever sucked my dick.

Come to think of it, that's not such a bad idea. I'm going to ring him up right now.

Linh (in Vietnamese means Levy)

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Love Like Hate - fantastic writing the kind that makes you gasp out loud, everyone should read it!

Linh Dinh is very funny as in: 'there's humor in the blackest tragedy'

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Ly Tu Trong is the street I hang out when in Saigon - too funny ! And I had an old south Vietnamese woman coming to say hello to me everyday when I ate breakfast at the nice 1/2 foreigner, 1/2 Vietnamese outside/inside restaurant/kafe close to the Street food picnic area on the way to Ben Tranh market. Anyways she would smile at me when I would say my poorly spoken french/vietnames - she must have known by my age that I 'd been in Saigon - once upon a time. I always handed her some $$. Why not - it was worth the smile and the flash backs I would get . I still get goose bumps when it rains at exactly 5:00 pm for 20 minutes in October. To me - that's a million dollar feeling. Thanks Linh.

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"Most of these bachelors were old [check!], ugly [check!], diseased [is Asperger's a disease?], or handicapped [not yet]". Sounds like I might still qualify for a 25-50% discount on a bride! 👰 Wait, ya hafta fly to Taiwan to pick her up? Where's the "mail order" in that!?

I'm guessing all the ones that look like cheerleader Lee Da-Hye are sold out and I'd have to settle for a used pole dancer with a lot of mileage. Ah well, as the old saying goes: "love is the delusion one woman differs from another".

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The picture of the woman smoking the cigarette is ethereal. I almost thought it was a billboard as I scrolled down.

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Hi Troy,

She's smoking right by the NO SMOKING sign! Seriously now, should a woman like that be fined for anything?

Linh

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Sep 25·edited Sep 25Author

P.S. If she drives drunk and kills a family of five then, OK, fine her $75 or something, but short of that?

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Certainly not. I didn't notice the sign Linh.

It should be grateful that she chose to light up next to it. Wonderful picture!

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