re: #114 I Would Prefer Not To

I told my Canadian cousins who offered me a couch in Toronto to sleep on: “I’m not going to let the bastards win.”

When I was in Business School in Paris, my Spanish language TA was a man who’d managed to leave Chile (Pinochet’s) by the skin of his teeth. As he told story, a couple of hours later, he would have been arrested and disappeared. And he was just a language teacher.