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    We love October

    Sep 22, 2022 3 minutes
    WORDS JAMES ALEXANDER-SINCLAIR
    “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers”
    Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

    are sitting in the doorway of a small aeroplane. The parachute is bulky on your back, your feet are dangling in the slipstream, below you (a long way below you) is a patchwork of fields, trees and tiny houses. Behind you is the warmth and comfort of the cabin, but scrambling backwards is not an option: you have to gird your loins, take a deep breath and topple

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