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Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

He had attended three universities in the United States.

But he had never seen the mountainous half of his native land north of Vientiane, including the royal capital, Luang Prabang.

Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.