It was the Aramco wife exchanging sex for bacon that I found most amazing. In the movie 'The Empire of the Sun' about civilians in a Japanese internment camp during the second world war w one of the adult characters asks a tween boy if he had managed to teach him anything and the boy responded, 'Yes, you taught me that people will do just about anything for a potato."

Life in Saudi for an expat in the 80's was something else. Watch out for the next installment of this article out on Saturday which is about distilling and selling booze in quantity in Saudi Arabia.

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