Hillary
The business of being a bar girl
Dear Hillary,
(Further to a letter two weeks ago engendering sympathy for bar girls and their fight to stay alive in their mosquito infested huts.)
The...
Buy me cola, Teerak
Dear Hillary,
I have noticed that all the girls in the bars all come out with the same small talk, “Where you come from? You...
The mother is the grandmother
Dear Hillary,
Are these bar girls as cash-strapped as they make out? Every one of them says they have no money (and often a broken...
Ménage a trois plus one
Dear Hillary,
Feast or famine it seems. I wrote you about 6 months ago because I just couldn’t find a lady that clicked for me....
Dirty Old Men
Dear Hillary,
I read Marie's letter to you with a smile (two weeks ago). She is not the only person - there have been numerous...
Girlfriend wrapped in plastic
Dear Hillary,
We have to remember that the reason any of these jaded, morose and inexcusably naive chaps are in a Pattaya bar in the...
“I do” (11 times)
Dear Hillary,
I just read about some Thai woman who got married 11 times and then scarpered with the dowries, never to be seen again....
Broke the ATM
Dear Hillary,
All the time I hear “She’s left me,” from the expats I meet. They don’t just go, but they raid the bank accounts,...
The dissolving marriage
Dear Hillary
Where do I start? 10 years of what I thought was a good marriage to a young Thai girl. We had courted for...
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