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LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 12

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 12 LEAVING LOVE TO LEARN IN L.A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Before dawn, the poor couple woke and got up early to catch their chickens at the backyard so that they can sell the birds to get some money for Dara. The sounds of hens and...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 11

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 11 LOVES, LEARNS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 After working for nearly three years with The Cambodia Diamond as a reporter, Dara then obtained a scholarship to Los Angeles in the U.S. in 1997. Leaving love for L.A. is a new world for h...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 10

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 10 POOR IN WEALTH, RICH IN LOVE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Dara spent nearly a year working for the U.N. as an interpreter and when the U.N. pulled out from Cambodia after the elections in 1993, he worked as a journalist for an Engl...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 9

AKP Phnom Penh, August 13, 2021 -- LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 9 THE U.N. DRIVES THE LOVERS’ UNION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 After Cambodia’s four factional groups signed the Paris Peace Agreement on 23rd October 1991, witnessed by representatives of 18 co...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 8

AKP Phnom Penh, July 02, 2021 -- LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 8 THE KHMER ROUGE FROGMARCHES DARA TO A LANDMINE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Letters were the only communication between Dara and his sweetheart Duongchan through which they can learn each othe...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 7

AKP Phnom Penh, June 11, 2021 -- LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 7 SAVING LIMBS AND LIFE FOR LOVER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Dara, like many other young men, was jobless, given the country continued to face economic sanctions by the western world spearheaded by...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 6

AKP Phnom Penh, May 07, 2021 -- LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 6 THE POWER OF KHMER VALUES SHAPES LOVE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Superstitiously speaking, in Khmer belief, if a couple falls in love at a time of bad weather or anything- such as breaking g...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 5

AKP Phnom Penh, April 02, 2021 -- LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 5 THE COLD WAR ENDS, MISERABLE PASTS REVEALED ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 It was in September 1989 and the students were lined up as usual ready to s...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 4

AKP Phnom Penh, February 26, 2021 -- LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 4 CHOOSING GIRL OVER GUN ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 It was 9am a school guard used an old broken AK rifle to hit the school bell, which was made of the unex...

LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 3

AKP Phnom Penh, January 29, 2021 -- LONG LOVE, SHORT LIFE CHAPTER 3 THE COMMUNIST SCHOOL BANS LOVE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 Guns for Boys, Handkerchiefs for Girls It was normal between 1987 and 1989 that all Cambodian high schoo...

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