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This is a conversation under article E113-1 Leave America for China, which is a good supplement to the overall event.
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I enjoy your stories as much as I enjoy reading Patrick O’Brian novels. I just have two questions.
“Approximately a month from my release from prison, I was reconnected with former colleagues and friends.” If you were able to leave the country before getting off parole, at what point did you serve six months in a Pennsylvania prison for violating parole?
You also said in March of 2022 that you have been in China for almost 20 years, even though you were released from ADC in 2011. That’s only ten years.
It seems as if your experiences took place in two or more worlds, or you were part of some offworld “20 years and back”-type of program.
Relax. I don’t want to be insulting. But Jesus man. Relax.
If you were able to leave the country before getting off parole, at what point did you serve six months in a Pennsylvania prison for violating parole?
I left prison in Late July 2011. Arrived in China late September 2011. I was not on parole at that time. In fact, I was on parole from September 2008 to December 2009. About a year. Then went back in and finished off my term. Parole is not the later phase of a sentence.
It is more often than not in the middle of a sentence. Most people violate parole for one reason or the other. I violated it for having an unused trac-phone, still in it’s blister pack, and an unopened bottle of wine I won as a door prize at my half-sisters wedding.
You also said in March of 2022 that you have been in China for almost 20 years, even though you were released from ADC in 2011. That’s only ten years.
It seems as if your experiences took place in two or more worlds, or you were part of some offworld “20 years and back”-type of program.
Look. Life is not pristine. My first, very first trip to China was in 1989. Most of my trips were in the 1990’s. I would spend three weeks in China and one week in the states. That changed over time. My solid 100% exclusive NEVER THE USA living in China started in 2011. Ok.
I was a Chinese resident in 1989. I never officially undid my residency.
So…
2022 – 1989 = 33 years of Chinese residence.
2022 – 2011 = 11 years of solid never-leave-China living arrangement.
2022 – 2004 = 18 years as a Chinese land-holder.
Take your pick.
But now if you want to further nit-pick, there was my time in Pago Pago, which was outside of China, but not in the USA. Yet, I still carried a USA passport, and held an active Chinese visa, and Chinese residency.
Life is not pristine.