Full set is shorthand for "I would like to cover my unsightly natural nails with acrylic and plastic artiface".
Tonight, I got a full set and a pedicure at my nail place. I can't really type well, b/c I'm not used to having nails. I bite them. I'm a rather nervous person.
However, my friend L** was my nail tech tonight at the nail place. We were watching Survivor on the t.v. He is from Cambodia. He then shared with me that when he was twelve, the Khmer Rouge came to his house, and killed two of his brothers, and the rest of his family escaped into the jungle. From there, they learned to make fire, just like on Survivor, with dried strips of bamboo. Or "with one piece of eye glasses and the sun".
He was the same age as my tiny daughter.
He asked me if I'd ever seen the Killing Fields. I said "Yes" and he asked me did I believe it was true.
I told him "L**, I know that it is true, but I don't know what to say."
We both have three year old sons.
Another fact. The Cambodians view fireflies as kinds of spirits and don't catch them and put them in jars. They think that is strange.