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Paul Heiney

‘There was only one solution. It was time to rip the boat open and have a bow thruster fitted’

I’ve just come through major surgery and the outcome is as yet uncertain. The chap who performed it looked no more than a lad but he swore he’d done the procedure many times before and always with success. He warned me there would be scarring but I resigned myself to the inevitability of that. Nevertheless, you don’t go into these things lightly. Which is why,

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