(Written in the present tense while I was in Chiang Mai.) I’d first heard about Chiang Mai from an old college friend, Seth Kammerer, who’d lived here, as had his older sister, an anthropologist running an HIV clinic for the hill tribes. In our casual correspondence, he talked about backpackers, money changers, drug dealers, and More

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