Now like a good modern worker bee, I left fully prepared with my SIM card and the entire suite of Apple devices in tow.

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In 2009, Sim, my then boyfriend, and I launched MOD Restoration, a high end furniture restoration company, exactly five days before the market hit rock bottom.

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One of my favorites is Jack Sim, the Singaporean who took a small bounty from business and set off on a crusade to clean up the world's loos as a disease-prevention strategy.

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CoeSo if I tell you that I have read his most recent novel, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, and that my wife is now reading it, please take that as a recommendation in lieu of a more conventional review.

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