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Back Street Boys
By Thomas Stuart/Mandalay
SEPTEMBER, 2006 - VOLUME 14 NO.9
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The two were also applauded whenever they were seen again in public in the streets of Mandalay.
The applause they receive for their back street performances is also warm. “Foreign travelers have kept our family and our art alive,” says Lu Maw. “Tourists are our Trojan horse, if you get my drift.”
Outside his modest home, a few taxis wait in the pitch-black night to take the clutch of foreigners who have made up the evening’s audience back to their hotels. A city with a million people, yet there are few streetlights. But the darkness has an upside—on a cloudless night in Mandalay you can still see brilliant stars, if you know what I mean.
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