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A Vietnamese Cowboy?
Dallas’s Dat Nguyen, all five-eleven of him, takes on the NFL
November
1
1999
Charles P. Pierce
Pam Francis
A Vietnamese Cowboy?
Charles P. Pierce
November
1
1999
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the game
A Vietnamese Cowboy?
Dallas’s Dat Nguyen, all five-eleven of him, takes on the NFL
November
1
1999
Charles P. Pierce
Pam Francis
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