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There was ghoulishness at the hospital at night. When the footfalls fell away and the lights along the corridors seemed to scream louder than the screeching silence. Doctors emerged from doorways peering at clipboards in their hands. Occasionally an …

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Lying in bed with a wicked malaria fever, I’d hear the distant sound of a football being kicked in the far distance, and the rising and falling of players’ voices. I was maybe four or five. We lived in …

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Dear Reader,

Yesterday I woke up at 4 am and later dropped Tamms off to school. Then I came back home at 8 am and did something that was completely out of my character; I got back in bed …

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I’m writing this from Dnipro Hotel, Kyiv, Ukraine. It’s an old monstrous Eastern European hotel with long corridors, blue old carpet, old wooden armchairs, and an imposing white grand piano when the elevator doors open on the 11th floor. …

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This is going to be a quickie. 

Two quickies, actually. 

First quickie. 

I woke up today and thought about that night in 1996 in Brunei when fans got to the Bandar Seri Begawan amphitheatre and waited hours. The young …