South of Boston, the Hyatt Place Braintree opens on 21 May with a 24-hour guest kitchen that provides meals and snacks around the clock via a touch-screen kiosk.

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It was four o'clock in the afternoon and the kitchen was square and gray and quiet.

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In the kitchen she waited for another quarter of an hour, watching the hands of the dresser clock.

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