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    UnFictional

    Where Nobody Knows Your Name

    Sometimes you find yourself in an unfamiliar place.  A foreign country, jail, or maybe just the wrong smoky club...

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    By Bob Carlson • Jan 30, 2016 • 29m Listen

    Sometimes you find yourself in an unfamiliar place. And whether by choice or by force, you almost always leave a changed person. On our program this week: one man finds himself in a restaurant where the normal methods of communication don’t work; then, a woman's reality shifts when she enters a smoky dance club on the South China sea; but first a man finds himself in the last place he should go, afraid someone will find out who he really is.

    Photo: MJ Club in Sanya, China. (Photo by Benjamin Gurr, courtesy Jennifer Dunn)

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