This curtails their idyllic life, happily working as free men on a plantation owned by Mr Gibson's character.

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They purchased a house and settled down to what they thought was going to be an idyllic life, but just weeks later their nightmare began.

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It all seems a long way away from the picture of idyllic family life of the 1950s when divorce was rare, and children were seen but not heard.

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My idyllic student life soon went up in smoke, literally.

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They almost uniformly described an idyllic university life.

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People gather to sip drinks in 1950s-style cafes, eat mango with sticky rice and pose for photos in front of murals depicting idyllic scenes of Thai village life.

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His childhood was anything but idyllic and for much of his later life he suffered from under-confidence and depression.

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Life was not always so idyllic.

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Jahangir remembers her childhood as idyllic, yet from an early age her life was touched by the anxieties, disappointments, and disillusionment that afflicted Pakistan from its birth.

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