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...Koks occupies the oldest house at Ilimanaq, a charming wooden building with creaky floors....
...’s wood shop, stacked with beautifully shaped, highly polished mahogany pieces waiting to be added to the three hulls under construction on the factory floor....
...We meet him as he is born en caul on the floor of a single-wide trailer in the hills. He is yanked into the state’s overburdened and threadbare foster care system, and loses his mother to an overdose....
...Those of us walking through the empty city stared at each other with suspicion, not unlike the mangy cats eyeing each other over overflowing bins....
...A family of farmers would arrive with a dumper truck full, which they would reverse into the market, raising the trailer so that the green-clad yellow torpedoes would spill out....
...But some do not even manage to fix peeling paint on their trailers....
...Walking uphill to breakfast in the rarefied air leaves me gasping, and with a daily temperature ranging from 4C at night to 26C in the afternoon, the phrase “climate change” takes on a new meaning....
...Original marquetry floors creak underfoot....
...of the trailer in which she lived....
...The tarp covering was in a pile on the floor next to the tractor-trailer. It looked like an elephant skin. I bought it for $70 and made a painting out of it. It was 17 by 23 feet....
...He moved into it in 2007 after an extensive restoration (the whole back section was removed, floors levelled)....
...someone walking across the room as the structure gives slightly....
...I gave the four-wheeler a small spin, walking it alongside me, and made my way to the cashier....
...Friends and colleagues say he has a dogged sense of duty that has kept him from walking away, and that he wants to see the well shut off on his watch....
...You must have been hot walking round the park. Better to look good than to feel good, that’s what I always say.”...
...Two tall blond boys were walking hand-in-hand among the skyscrapers as I disembarked at my hotel, insouciant advertisements for themselves....
...Four-by-four cars haul dinghy trailers towards the busy marinas where the weekend toys of millionaires are moored alongside smaller yachts and powerboats....
...We spent the day walking around looking for a place to spend the night, sat lost on some park bench watching traffic, then went to the police....
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