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Monday
Jun012015

My Name is Tam

I am a 33 year-old Vietnamese woman with an 11-year old son.

He was born in Hanoi. He lives with my mother in a village near the border with Cambodia.

I sold my skin in Cambodia. Business is business. 

Now I live in Ho Chi Minh City. I work as a cook and servant.

I wear round-scarred cigarette burn marks on my wrists. They are my internal-external permanent anger.

This is my story. 

I don’t know how to write so I told this story to a man I met while working as a domestic in a Saigon guesthouse.

He was a good listener. 

My Name is Tam

 

Love is in the air. Run for cover.

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