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Going Back to Vietnam Is Sometimes Amusing, Often Fraught, and Always Surreal

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An American tourist in contemporary Vietnam discovers that the trip is a lot bumpier and certainly more surreal than anticipated. Exit through the gift shop.

Jeff Greenfield
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Just after dawn on a brisk December morning, my wife and I stepped out of the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi for our first look at the capital of Vietnam.

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