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Local heroes The new Pony Club dad

Sebastian is starting to get on the nerves of the other, the Sunday papers and a surreptitious tinny on the pretext of doing the vital job of minding the trailer with its snoozing dog? Sebastian even brings banana bread. When he tells his fellow fathers, flushed with pride, that Susannah and Tinkerbell have mastered flying changes, he is met with blank stares.

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