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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ...One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imitate an... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...aw excludes such characters, and we shall send him away to another city after pouring perfumed oil upon his head and crowning him with ... ...mouth into the beer can, she crossed Dunlavy street to join him on the swing set. "Y-e-s!" said Gabriele in a tone of affected romanticism of the triv... .... They were lectured that the food given to them should be put in boxes and set in the refrigerators so that they would know that the food was being ... ...ear fountains still spurting from ancient aqueducts, St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, and the catacombs. Their final whole day was filled with Et... ...rds, no hurt would ensue. The dirty movie theatre showed only normal R-rated films and sexual activity was restricted to bathroom stalls. Had it been...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

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