A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and a…

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A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world. ✨ Chuck Palahniuk (2011). Survivor, p.16, Random House
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