Mem Kha's Love Story

It all started on a hot, sultry day in August when a letter arrived that turned my world upside down and inside out. "Our medical secretary is going on furlough for several months. Why not plan your trip so you could stay with us and cover her home leave? Be here mid-December. Love, Helen."
I had only mentioned that I was thinking of taking a trip! I had no intentions of disrupting my well-ordered life and trotting off to what seemed to me the end of the world; namely, Thailand. People don't...