Here, 11, 000 km from Seoul, alone and impressionable, Ko began to drift away from his old friends and to take up with a racier crowd.

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Yet some voters are beginning to drift away from the rigid identity politics of old.

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After a while, your thoughts will drift off to the unused siding where the old tall weeds are, and the string of curving words will toot a mournful toot and pull ahead.

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