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Version: 2018-05-23
For my mother, Jennifer, born five days later; with love
My dreams
Watching me said
One to the other:
‘This life has let us down.’
Paul Potts
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
The love of place, and precedency, it rocks us in our cradles, it lies down with us in our graves.
John Donne
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