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Keep keen concentration

he Back Gun’s family, on the male side at least, have all suffered from the triple afflictions of selective deafness, traumatic amnesia and intemperate explosive disorder. Early-season outings have demonstrated that they are not alone. Selective deafness, or as the Duchess pithily has it, “wilful ignorance of what is being said by others”, manifests itself most often in moments of restful calm when

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