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Selected excerpts from Avoiding Prison can be found by clinking on the links in the right-hand column of this page.

One day, Wendy Dale's parents casually inform her that they are selling everything they own in Tempe, Arizona ("basically the car, the house and anything else that could be considered their children’s future inheritance") and are taking her brother and two suitcases and moving to the Third World.

Move to Tegucigalpa

What have Wendy Dale's parents been doing in Honduras? The answer has to do with CIA agents and jalapeño chili pepper farms.

Her parents new Third World hobbies

The author explains how to illegally enter a foreign country as well as what it's like to hang out with prostitutes in Havana.

Cuba Libre



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