Sneden wrote the core of it during the war, sketching on scraps of paper and scribbling in the margins of a New Testament, then hiding his work in the soles of his shoes and the seams of his clothing.

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Indeed, touring the property's two houses with her is akin to tagging along with a museum docent fitting, considering that the De Soles are major supporters of the Aspen Art Museum, which is set to open a new building by architect Shigeru Ban in 2014.

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Owing to such chronic inflation, the Peruvian currency, the sol, was replaced by the Inti in mid-1985, which itself was replaced by the nuevo sol ("new sun"), at which time the new sol had a cumulative value of one billion (1, 000, 000, 000) old soles.

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