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Thank you for sharing these thoughts. I live in Laayoune since 10 months and have only now come to appreciate the emptiness of the desert. The city has grown exponentially and is far bigger that Sanmao cold ever have imagined.

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Wonderful piece.

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Thank you for this wonderful Sunday essay, Emily. I'm just discovering Sanmao.

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Glad you enjoyed it Neil—and thank you for reading here. I love your work (and your newsletter)! In fact, it was your Instagram storytelling that directly inspired me to #VQRTrueStory, for which I was a regular columnist for a while. So thank you!

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I didn't know you'd written for True Story! That's excellent. I'll have to go back and look (I've been most away from instagram for a while). Thanks for reading the newsletter, and for making such a good one of your own.

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