Cocooned in my brand new digital world

Last Christmas, my friend Bessie gave me a Kindle. It took me several hours to trick the Amazon computer into believing I actually live in America. I had to get a brand new gmail account, ask my friend's aunt permission to use her address in California - and send her several years of subscriptions to Playboy, and pay on my visa card from CITIC bank. After all that, my Kindle started to download properly and charge $1.99 for overseas downloads.

Although this attempt was successful, Amazon, much like the police in China before a major event, kept asking me on my gmail account: "Where are you?" "Are you traveling?" "You know its cheaper to download when you are home in the States" etc, etc.

I ignored all of this stupid, silly questioning like I ignore the local police trying to get me to re-register after a business trip.