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It was forest-glen with visiting privileges. Do not disturb is the given law, and if visiting, be polite and respect the no disturbance ordinance.
Stone castles in high places with trees 'round, and beautiful grounds-setting. Kind of an Alice in Wonderland of what you want. Suppose they trim here and not crop - wherein maybe even those castle bedrooms for the rich were the early bedroom communities. Castles - how old-money can you get ? with modern plumbing and bedrooms inside-new, the oldest pro-rating in the world.
I did not stay Luxembourg but a day. I went into Germany for a more proper look around. Germany was famous for the Nazis, and I was traversing into hellowed ground. Blooey ! was the image. Black and white stuff blowing up. Helmets and trench coats and black jack-boots. World War II, of what the American media never tired of bragging, as actually if any of 'em ever were in a trench. Who gets in a trench ? From the looks of British mini-series, almost everyone British did in World War I. The trenches war. And just when they were getting so high-falutin' war's end - '29, the crash and the march to cash can't.
Mid eighties or thereabouts, my girl-friend Sophia and I were at a casino probably around Reno, California. He looked to be live-in the desert of, or maybe that was because there the casino was, and he alone with no players but him the dealer and his dreams, walked-in and put a hundred-on one throw of the dice and lost. There was an ingestion that followed, the collapse and deflation of dreams floated, laboring in the hot sun, so that he almost drowned in washed-out hopes. All those things he would have done - gone.
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