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| 96cbd3e | Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city. | city countryside migraine suburbs | Neil Gaiman | |
| cc3dec2 | One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of those suburbs which had stopped concreting over nature at the very last minute, and ever since smugly claimed rural status. | nature orpington suburbs | Julian Barnes |