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Someone's personal alter mixes well at public wilderness area in Taipei.In the Changchun Road high-rises near my flat, travel agents do business wall to wall with mini-brothels and common Taiwanese families. I can imagine the falsetto shrieks of... ...full story at Laowiseass

from Laowiseass on Mon, Jul 20 2009

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