Aside from the fact that he’s worth over $100 million dollars, Hong is exactly the kind of person you’d imagine when you think of a middle-aged Vietnamese guy in Southern California - stern yet kind, ethnically Asian yet politically white. Hong finds out about his winning lotto…
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Anyone who knew Charles would describe him as nice, not because he was truly kind, but because there wasn’t much else to say about Charles. Standing at…
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Ben was the kind of person who had a hard time saying no, which was how he got pressured into attending the wedding of Raymond, his mom’s distant cousin…
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I met Adolpho Leon through my high school friend Kikoy. He’s a bit of an oddball, Kikoy had mentioned, but his spare room’s been vacant for a while and…
A parable
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In the summer of 2042, my girlfriend Sara was on a trip to Mexico with her sisters, so I took the opportunity to see a relationship counselor. Although…
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Some of my favorite scenes in cinema and literature are displays of clarity: Scrooge waking up as essentially a different person after the third ghost’s…
The most distinct memory Jake has of his mom Eleanor is the way she would fidget with her hair whenever Jake got in trouble at school or brought home…
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Cathedral Effect