Just by uttering "I'm in the states" ANYONE would know you don't live here or are of foreign extraction, Ipso Facto !

"I am vacationing" AND/OR "flying the local flag" AND/OR "while I'm here" are all unnecessary. So, if you want to waste precious utterances of the English Language, go right ahead. I'll follow suit with my verbose display of polysyndeton AND repetition, AND any other rhetorical device I might conjure up out of thin air.

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