What’s the most interesting place you’ve been and why? (500 words on Phnom Penh)

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Growing up as a Vietnamese American, I seldom entertain the hypothetical: what would have happened if my family never left Vietnam for America? What if the war never happened? Being in Phnom Penh, as I hail tuktuks from sandled uncles, order “happy pizza” from the policeman owned waterfront restaurant, watching The Force Awakens and Inside Out at Aeon…

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