Today, as I was walking up a particularly long and steep road, an elderly woman in an ethnic head scarf stopped me.  “Canadian?”, she asked me in accented but understandable English, smiling broadly. “Mei guo ren” (American) I answered. “Oh” she said,  her face falling Iike a souffle.

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    • Micae Martinet

      In the past, when abroad, I have been mistaken for being Canadian. I don’t know what I was thinking this time.

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