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Tales from Titchmarsh While the media continues to report on life’s tragedies, Alan finds

Should I confess to you that I have been musing on The Unbearable Lightness of Being, you will most likely assume that I had been watching the 1988 film of the book written by Milan Kundera. I confess that I have neither read the book nor seen the film, but the very title struck me as ironic in an age where The Unbearable Heaviness of Being seems to be our daily fare.

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