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...important cog in the wheel of your family. Some readers tell me, "We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family." You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that. You look at all these rules in place in the '60s - the separate bathroom, the separate plate and cup. That's not how you treat a member of the family. And that conundrum is what got me started on the real plot of the story...
...church was overreaching its bounds by taking a side in the controversy. "Our efforts in advocating for traditional marriage and our engagement in public policy debates, is entirely consistent with the law," he says. "We're not attempting to cross that line. But we do seek our rightful place in enunciating the principles we hold as essential as cornerstones for good society and the common good...
...Instead, when Hassan got off the plane, he found himself in the airport in Kathmandu, where a taxi took him and the trafficker, who was traveling with him, to a bustling tourist neighborhood in the Nepalese capital. "It was a strange place," says Hassan. "All the buildings looked the same. Everything was new to me." When they booked a hotel there, the trafficker assured Hassan that he was arranging the necessary documents to complete their journey to Sweden. But the next morning, when Hassan woke up in an empty room, he realized he'd been duped. "I realized...
...across a YouTube clip about Ashekian's disappearance - a case that bore an eerie similarity to his own fictional story. Connelly immediately went back to the film his videographer shot in Chungking Mansions. He had raw footage - much of it shot secretly to avoid confrontation - from the last place she stayed. Maybe, just maybe, Connelly could find a clue. (See the top 10 famous disappearances...
...imagine someone becoming embroiled in something dangerous there. Connelly, a former Los Angeles Times crime reporter who spent years milling about crime scenes and interviewing victims, says he chose to set a major part of the book in Chungking Mansions because, as a stranger, it is the type of place "where you want to look over your shoulder...