By Lynn Yaeger

(Travel + Leisure) — I stole a laundry bag from the Alvear Palace Hotel in Buenos Aires. It was made of thick ivory linen, embroidered with the words “dry cleaning” in cerulean blue, and looked like something that I could have found at an antique textiles show. But that wasn’t the case.

I’m usually pretty scrupulous about purloined souvenirs. Of course, I help myself to soap and shampoo, sewing kits, even those black sponges meant to spruce up your shoes — oh, and ballpoint pens and darling little notepads. But the laundry bag was my first sojourn into the land of, what shall we call it … outright theft?

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