On January 21, 2016, a husband and wife made their way to a hotel in the west of Ireland. The husband was 83 at the time, and his wife was 70. Neither had ever left the country. Indeed, the man had only ever left his home county once in all his life, while his wife had been to Dublin twice. He was a retired small farmer and was living in the house he grew up in. Save for hospital stays, he had never spent a night anywhere else.  His wife had left school at the age of ten to care…

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