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That Shopify dot cokek slash special offer. Saigon was an addicted city and we were the drug, the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the

family, the division of the country. It had all been done in our name. People look

back to the French Saigon with a sentimental warmth, as if the problem had begun with the Americans.

But the French city, the Saigon of the Piaestr, as Lucian Bauda called it, had represented the opium stage of the addiction, with the Americans

had begun the heroin phase, and what I was seeing now was the first symptoms of withdrawal.

That Dominic was James Fenton, who at the time was a young poet.

So he's writing this in 1975?

Is that right?

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