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I spent some time in Quang Tri, visiting the site of the apparitions of Our Lady of La Vang.
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What I love about these out-of-the-way places is that they tend to make peculiar claims for themselves.
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At Quang Tri, people were always proudly telling me “We are the poorest province in Vietnam!”
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A winning claim, I should think – a real tourist magnet.
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