She was last seen sleeping on the living room sofa near an unlocked glass door of a friend's off-campus apartment after a night of partying.

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The living room sofa.

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Either way, a photograph from that time shows a skinny, solemn child atop her charge with the same ease with which one claims one's place on the living-room sofa.

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He tracks the weapons of the war in Syria on his laptop from a cream-colored sofa in his living room.

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Even at midnight or at some early hour in the morning, I will change the location of the sofa in the living room.

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To create an inviting space for Doug Davis, a 40-year-old entertainment and sports lawyer and the son of music mogul Clive Davis, Mr. Wolf created a plush, wraparound sofa for the living room and upholstered a wall in the bedroom with mohair to give it a cozier feel.

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She draped a bed in midnight blue velvet and put it in the living room (because a bed is more relaxing than a sofa, of course), tacked ikat fabrics over embroidered benches, and served couscous dinners wearing a djellaba.

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This Columbus Day, the Italian-American groups that traditionally lay a wreath at the base of the monument can lean it against a purple sofa in Mr. Nishi's ersatz living room.

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They were waiting for Husna in the living room, all three wearing saris, relaxed, Kamila sitting with her feet curled under her on a sofa, Rehana and Sarwat in high-backed chairs.

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Another door downstairs to the left of the foyer opens into a more casual living room for Mr. Gouw and his family, with a grand piano, a large-screen television, a sofa and coffee table.

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