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A hotel room that has stories to tell

A hotel room that has stories to tell A gallery of photos are buzzing around blogs and forums on the Chinese Internet. Each photo in the series features a different set of characters that share the same setting, a shabby two-person hotel room. Blogger... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Tue, Apr 21 2009

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