Neo uses the vulgar force of Hokkien to show what he describes as the "ugly side of Singapore" - a city that, from the outside, seems as button-downed as Bible class at the Salvation Army.

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Born in 1918, Mr Graham grew up in one of the heartlands of bible-thumping Christianity, the farmlands outside Charlotte in then-impoverished North Carolina.

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As was my custom, as a deterrent to possible wrongdoers, I had my pistol outside the window in my right hand, and my left inside on the Bible my father had given me just before deploying to Iraq.

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