Ray Hecht
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Always Goodbye
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2019
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South China Morning Blues
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2015
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2020: A Year in Taiwan
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Pearl River Drama: Dating in China - A Memoir
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2015
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Saturnine, In Her Head, Out of Time
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Visions of Taiwan # 1
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This Modern Love
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2016
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411
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2013
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Visions of Taiwan # 2
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The Ghost of Lotus Mountain Brothel
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2013
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I have never encountered anything—any book or movie or series—that has aged so badly and so fast as White by Bret Easton Ellis. Ellis was one of my favorite writers, who frankly peaked at a very young age. There was the numbing Less Than Zero when he ...more |
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Ziznase
May 29, 2021 08:24AM
merhaba.teşekkürler arkadaşlığınıza. daha çok yazılarınız olması dileğimle. güzel günler dilerim. saygılar
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Hello, Ray. Thanks so much for the friend request. Keep up the good work and much success in your writing.