Expats in Laos say that sometimes, if you stay too long, you can never go back home.

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If you've strolled through a bookstore, maybe while avoiding work on your great American novel, and walked into the section on writing, you can be forgiven if you never go back to your laptop.

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The elevated mountainscape, titled It's Never Too Late And You Can't Go Back, by German artist Mariele Neudecker has Britain's outline displayed on its base.

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