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    Dispatches From Roy Kesey, An American Guy Married to a Peruvian Diplomat Living in China: Dispatch 9: Christmas and Karaoke
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  • December 7, 2003
    Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby’s Songbook: Richard Marx’s “Hazard.”
    by George Viebranz
  • December 5, 2003
    Dispatches From Roy Kesey, An American Guy Married to a Peruvian Diplomat Living in China: Dispatch 8: Certain Gatherings, and a Fetish
    by Roy Kesey
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