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		<title>Transitioning – Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a rusty dull blade, I make a small incision and cut counter clockwise around the protruding flesh on the right of my chest. Knowing that they will be gone in a few short moments supersedes the excruciating pain that is coursing through my traitorous body. I saw hard and fast that sounds reminiscent of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&blog=3110050&post=354&subd=misplacedbaggage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where has the time gone?  It was almost a year ago that I received an email from a television show that offered to help search for my supposed Vietnamese foster mother.  The application requires a large amount of personal information.  I start to fill it out, then stop, start filling it out again, then stop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&blog=3110050&post=343&subd=misplacedbaggage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It ain&#8217;t coca cola, it&#8217;s rice.</title>
		<link>http://misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/it-aint-coca-cola-its-rice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Straight to Hell &#8211; The Clash
If you can play on the fiddle
How&#8217;s about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King&#8217;s English in quotation
As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze
In the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise
There ain&#8217;t no need for ya
Go straight to hell boys
Y&#8217;wanna join in a chorus
Of the Amerasian blues?
When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&blog=3110050&post=320&subd=misplacedbaggage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Triple Threat &#8211; Transnational, Transracial, AND Transgendered???</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaotic Soul</dc:creator>
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As the years seem to pass by quickly, I count the moments in my life that I have made an active point and the seemingly short list questions my purpose in this world.  As I enter an age where having a little one of my own seems almost impossible, I contemplate the other gender road [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&blog=3110050&post=315&subd=misplacedbaggage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grim Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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Killers at the orphanage gates. They’ve all come with their blades, their grins and their candy. Everyone in town recognizes their arm sleeve insignia, their flags and their loud, easy talk. To cut off the heads of one’s enemies while sparing the heads of their offspring must be a horrific enterprise. Even if one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&blog=3110050&post=302&subd=misplacedbaggage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeology of the Mind</title>
		<link>http://misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/archaeology-of-the-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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For the past couple months, as you’ve probably noticed, I posted a series of excerpts from books on the Vietnam War that had an unstated, but clear, purpose (Notes from a Disintegrating Nation and It Was Never About Freedom). I’m more than happy to admit that I can come off as polemic and bit too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&blog=3110050&post=298&subd=misplacedbaggage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s in a name, that when shortened sounds anything BUT the same…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaotic Soul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop.  Just stop.  Yes, I said stop.  Look.  Listen.  My name ISN’T “Ann, Annie, Andel, Ardel, Andou or even Adolf and it’s definitely not ‘Sir’”.  It’s “Anh Ðào”, pronounced “Unh Dow”, and certainly not to be spelt that way.  And I said “space”, not “hyphen” between the two-worded first name, so why do you insist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&blog=3110050&post=294&subd=misplacedbaggage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Was Never About Freedom, Part 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, taught me that sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight. In this case, all I had to do was open a book, and some of the truth spilled out. Bolded text is my emphasis.]
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pp250-251
In France in the spring and summer of 1946, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&blog=3110050&post=222&subd=misplacedbaggage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To the woman who adopted me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/to-the-woman-who-adopted-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaotic Soul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY.  Thank you for putting up with me for 30 plus years.  Thank you for not kicking me out of the house when I came out, even though you feared I had picked a lifestyle that would dig me an early grave.  Thank you for telling me to always cut my Krameresque fro [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&blog=3110050&post=292&subd=misplacedbaggage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Was Never About Freedom, Part 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, taught me that sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight. In this case, all I had to do was open a book, and some of the truth spilled out. Bolded text is my emphasis.]
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[Ton That Thien]
pp176-177
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