“What had changed about the red-light district, since Ruth’s previous visit to Amsterdam, was that so many of the prostitutes were not white . . . almost all the women were Asian—probably Thais . . . Indeed, they were Thais, Maarten told her. He also told her that some of them had been formerly men, they’d allegedly had their sex-change operations in Cambodia.”
—Mr. John Irving, A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR
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May 2020
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