Thaksin met, alone, with me and Forbes Asia contributing editor Lan Anh Nguyen for nearly an hour at a Dubai hotel he evidently uses for business appointments while residing in a nearby luxury development.

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Todd told me he was going to leave me alone with her for 15 minutes.

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"I'm very hurt and angry that someone could approach me in the street and ask me those sorts of questions at all, let alone when I had my nine-year-old with me, " she said.

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"This very nice woman left me alone in a room with five Vermeers, " he said.

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It was almost like for the first time Sarah felt quite alone, because she had to deal with me, rather than just have me there, a part of her, to support her.

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When he found himself trapped alone in a conference room with a reporter like me a few years ago, he literally tried to flee.

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Those two pieces were some of the first to convince me that I could be very happy completely alone for a long period of time if I had enough books with me.

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But if I'm honest with myself, my self-imposed isolation from other moms has left me feeling a little alone in the new-mommy experience.

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