Back in Bangkok Travis took up with an older woman, an ex-New Yorker named Iris who tended bar at one of the clubs on Patpong Road. She would talk endlessly to Travis about the beauty of the neon-lit Times Square... ...colored steam vaporising through manhole covers and more shows than you could go to in a lifetime. People who met Travis in those years took him for an American. He may well have adopted this persona as a way of throwing his parents off the scent... ...if indeed they were still sniffing him out.

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