Felt a little bit of everything.
The End
AUTHOR’S NOTE
I'd like to thank Larry Ragle, retired head of the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department crime lab, for pointing me in the right directions, again. Getting tired of this, Larry?
Thanks to Cro-Magnon Music for permission to put the prescient lyrics of Tom Bagley and Cat Parker into the voice of Gwen on page 192 and 268. Also, I'm grateful to Dee Harvey of the Brain Imaging Center of the University of California, Irvine, for inviting me to the Robert and Margaret Sprague Symposium. This was a heady conference for a mere storyteller, but filled with interesting people. Thanks in particular to Dr. Sam Gambhir for his fascinating lecture on molecular imaging as well as his casual observations on the dangers of using MRI on gunshot victims. And special thanks to Dr. Larry Cahill for his riveting presentation on the emotional components of human memory. Long live the amygdala.
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Little Saigon
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
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