The fabled city, whose names is sometimes used in the West as a synonym for a faraway place, was at the center of trans-Sahara trade in earlier times.

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The school bus is the big yellow kind, exactly the same as the one Liz once rode to elementary school, in that faraway place, that faraway land known as rural Ohio.

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Usually, when Stafford and his team prepare the grounds for burial, it is for someone who has died in a faraway place.

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