"I Wish I Was Back in Phnom Penh..."

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Re: "I Wish I Was Back in Phnom Penh..."

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[quote="John Bingham" post_id=431090 time=1592994860 user_id=1148]
Terry Farrell is not Irish, he's English. I thought that tower looked ridiculous going up but I quite like it now.
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That's a different story all together , I m 100 % by blood 5th generation Irish American and I found it hard to believe a Mick could take credit for such work. I was going simply off last names - mine is English btw but it s cuz we were basically property and did not have a proper last name and an ancestor thought he'd move up by taking an English surname.
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"I wish I was back In Phnom Penh..." to recover my khmer girlfriend. I was in PP for last time in Dec-Jan but my life is no longer there, because now my job is in Europe, and Covid screwed any of my plans to go back. Now she's tired of videocalls and my lack of a plan, so we stopped talking 1 month ago. Call me stupid if you want, but I miss her, she was lovely. Our only possible future together was getting married or civil union (she wanted a baby, it was maybe the last chance for both... we get old), but I was very careful with that. I'm 40 and she is just few years younger. As many Cambodians, she is very poor and had no chance to study, but I was crazy for her. She lived in her own appartment, cooking for herself, cleaning after, no drink, no drug, smart and speaks good english, she was a doll. She is not a ladybar (she has office work, but shitty salary), but some of her sisters were (which makes me worry about what she learned from them; now one sister is in Europe, the other with a barang in PP). She came to Europe last year after a lot of struggle from me, just for a simple tourist visa. Her situation is economically bad, so I support a bit every month (about $120). I don't like marrying, but I just see it as a tool to be together. Her benefit would be to come to Europe, and stay with me, and she would be completely covered by me. But by the end of our relation, she was tired and angry of working monday to saturday, and everything seemed to be my fault, and insinuating I should share all I have, as normal marry. But ours wouldn't be a normal marry :lol: I put all, she put nothing :lol: . I know my story is a repeated topic, and people will think the usual "plenty of fish", "don't be stupid"... But I just cannot. I'm tired of tinders. Only tattoed and strange girls with different interests to mine (and to be honest, usually few matches by the way, girls here have high standards :crazy: ), just to give an example, the trend in my country last summer was "girls with unshaved legs" :lol: . I guess it makes modern.

I lived in PP for 2 years, until my western girlfriend got tired of PP and wanted to go back... Alone. I was supposed to follow her a month later, and it was when I met my current girlfriend. Now my life here in Europe is like a prison, all my friends are married, babies, etc. I know for shure when day I will go back to PP, either she's available or not, maybe someone can share a beer with me. Of course, if this apparently perpetual sh*t of Corona ever ends.

I would like to spend the story in a separate thread, and explain everything, but that would be too much "attention w.", maybe someday.
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Re: "I Wish I Was Back in Phnom Penh..."

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I like it how girls say You marry me ,you love me true, now give me half what you have.
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
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