They chatted and laughed together as they scoffed chicken, sandwiches, stuffed vine leaved and strawberry scones.

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When we laughed together, in our separate houses, that was a kind of community.

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They laughed constantly together, often on the subject of their mutual knowledge of dwelling in the American South.

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You always laughed with him, just remember the good times you had together.

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The bejewelled and feather-dressed Samburu tribesmen must have laughed all the way home when Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio gathered them together a decade ago and told them of his plans to turn a couple of lumpy granite outcrops in the heart of Samburu country into a luxury game lodge overlooking the searing, acacia-speckled plains of northern Kenya.

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