Whether you're flying to visit your family, catching a train to meet up with a long-distance love or celebrating New Year's Eve on a warm-weather cruise with friends, ever present travel disruptions over the holiday season may leave you needing a place to stay at the last-minute.

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Ever since Soft Spot, and starting with the title track to 2005's End of Love, he's taken to occasionally needling those for whom expressions of love run counter to a painstakingly maintained ironic distance.

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With his band Red House Painters, he took things like "Long Distance Runaround" by Yes and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs, " slowed them way down and gave them entirely new emotional meaning, which to me is the mark of a truly great cover version.

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Gerry McIlroy seems like the dream sports dad, one who imbued his child with the love of his favorite sport, and offered just the right mix of support and distance to help Rory on his way.

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