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High life

A tale of two families

Tolstoy wrote about all happy ones being alike, but what would he have said about the ugly ones?

16 January 2016

9:00 AM

16 January 2016

9:00 AM

Gstaad

War and Peace has been in the news lately, so what was it that Leo wrote about all happy families being alike? Tolstoy came to mind last week right here in Gstaad, when I encountered probably the worst-looking family I’ve had the bad luck to run into in the past 79 years.

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