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A case of the morbs

s it safe to come out yet? After a month that has seen a 6.3 magnitude earthquake and the most devastating cyclone in a generation, I am not sure I want to come out even if it’s safe. Besides, I have “the morbs” – Victorian-era slang for a period of melancholy, apparently a contraction of morbid – brought on by this seemingly benighted country’s latest calamity. I am not expecting my morbs to lift any

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