LAYOVER STORIES — Cotton

6/17/1993

Hi Mom,

My apologies, I know I promised I would write sooner. I just wanted to drop you a quick note from my luxurious hotel room in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. You know, the place I was supposed to just have a 10-hour layover in before jetting off to Singapore to meet up with my friends. But, as fate would have it, a little thing called a tropical cyclone had other plans for me. So here I am, stuck in this jungle paradise for an additional 30 hours.

 I shouldn’t complain....

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