Viewers are shown close-ups of a healthy lung next to a blackened emphysemic lung, and the loop of a transplant scar that runs under Ms Laffin's arm and across her back.

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Here in a palatial nutshell was the palette and soft light, the practicality and brio, the deep tradition and smart modernity that I would see again and again over the next few days as I made my own accelerated loop through the trinity of cities Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges that anchor the northern region of Belgium known as Flanders.

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The next logical step was to cut Apple out of the loop.

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Next, you will see the Royal Enclosure, a loop of road with several sets of ruins, and beyond that, the Queen's bath, a faded building with sumptuously curved arches inside, surrounding a now empty bathing pool.

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