Ira Sukrungruang writes and teaches creative nonfiction. He is the author of Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy (2010), a memoir of growing up Thai American, and the coeditor of What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology (2003) and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology (2005). This story comes from the online journal Brevity (www.brevitymag.com), which collects very short creative nonfiction.
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