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Having sex in a swimming pool

  • February 14, 2017
  • by Laurence Rivers
Unprotected sex, booze, a swimming pool and and forthright businesswomen all face Laurence in a down-at-the-heel Mexican hotel.
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Tiki’s Surf Station

  • August 9, 2016
  • by Laurence Rivers
Laurence ends up in a surf town on the Pacific coast of Mexico where he quickly realises that he is not very cool. That, plus surfers are full of shit.
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Are you Married American?

  • July 23, 2016
  • by Laurence Rivers
Getting propositioned by an overweight Mexican man represents the furthest that my love life has progressed since arriving in Mexico, not to mention a long time before.
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