Some people love small scale places that they share with few other guests, offering lots of privacy.

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In this tight, discreet narrative, which drifts from one memory to another as if love had its own time-scale, the author movingly describes how Jim freed the narrator from the phantoms of her past and the righteousness of her family and friends.

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How much would you love a hotel that serves your martini on a silver tray while a full-scale riot rages outside?

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"I would love to be able to come up with a way that we can do much larger scale translations, but remember we are constrained by this 160 character text message limit, " said Dr Eagle.

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There is a similar story of love and loss and anger and grief for every headstone of course, but it's the sheer scale of the suffering which stays with you - and don't forget a similar story could be told from any war grave anywhere on earth.

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