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Among the geckos a small one stays in one place as those around her
dart here and there.
"That is Ly Van. She was my best mistress. Look. So obedient is she.
Very small and quiet. She never asked much from me. Be careful of the shy
ones Long-Vanh. They play timid, but they are not. Ly Van's sexual appetite
was unsatiable. She wanted me all the time. Sometimes I had to hide from her.
Sometimes I had to beg her no more. She always wanted to go again even
when I wasn't erect. I am old. I was old then. But she would pout and beg,
but she didn't care about jewelry or money or opium."
Ba Nguyen sighs. I tum my head to watch his profile. His eyes are
half closed from dreaming.
"Her breasts were small, her nipples were always perky. They were so
hard that I thought if I suckled them long enough they would erupt ripe with
the sweetness of figs thick with syrup."
"Ba Nguyen," I say.
Ba Nguyen's eyes open wide and he blinks several times before turn­
ing in my direction.
"Yes?"