Shopping online for the first time is like being in a strange town.

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The absurdity and mystery continue with "Missing Heels, " in which a mail-order bride arrives in a strange town and starts living at the house of a husband she only sees in her dreams.

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Suchen thought of Walter wandering the strange town, searching for a friendly face on a restaurant patio or a hotel balcony, and tried to convince herself that she had agreed to the coffee because of the helplessness that an old man could not erase from his face.

NEWYORKER: Alone

The Final Four Atlanta app is actually pretty useful for sorting out all the weekend's craziness, and I immediately noticed that most of it is happening in a strange place called Bracket Town.

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Rather, it captured Athens' unique culture as a strange mix of decaying South, hip art, small town and cosmopolitan sensibility, says Rodger L. Brown, author of Party Out of Bounds, a history of the Athens music scene.

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Most painfully, as I thought ahead to my stay, the hotel I could not find was in a strange area, just a few grubby steps outside Reims proper, in a little non-descript town called Tinqueux.

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