GOLDEN TORTOISE, THE

Massage Girl—2

84 The Golden Tortoise R With a free market and opening society, the Vietnamese are feeding themselves again. But they are in need of enough jobs, services and resources to support their burgeoning population and legions of disabled and orphaned parents and children.They are worried about their youth, many of whom are not interested in politics but have developed a craving for Western goods. Though there are more mopeds and consumer goods on the streets, the countryside remains poor and many from the peasantry still flee to the city to help their families survive. Massage Girl—2 My mother is dead, all my brothers and sisters married. I have no husband, no education, no other work. I do not care that you are married. I too hope to marry someday. I will not tell anyone. But with wars, SARS, chicken flu, there are few tourists now. I have no customers for two days while my old father, alone in our mountain village, is hungry and ill. That is why I offer to suck or fuck you. The price you pay will feed him for two weeks. Please, sir, do not refuse. What else can I do? R ...