Yes, always so easy for you in the Panama Canal Zone to boast of your patriotic prodigies. You even live in your own separately designated U.S. neighborhoods under U.S. law, almost as if the distance from Panama to the U.S. were negligible. It was not so easy for those of us living in other countries where things were not so clearly marked out, and not working at the embassy we had no access to the embassy and its commissary shopping and all of those perks and privileges that we don't get, needless to say. No, all I got was, at school, I got stuck in this bubble of dreary Italians whom I plan to be rid of ASAP, as soon as I get back to the U.S.
