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I was slightly embarrassed when she said our friends still remember me until now, how they still wonder what happened to me everytime they meet for their little soirees with their gwailo husbands and growing number of kids.
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2005
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A gwailo -- foreign devil -- with a camera usually means one thing: an official complaint about something.
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How many more "important gwailo septua/octo-generians" must die before HK people recognises its roots, and pay the according tributes and gratitude that are due.
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I suppose I could have tried to explain, but I don’t want to be perceived as a rude gwailo under any circumstances.
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