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TRAVEL KEEPSAKES

I was a fully fledged bookworm at a very young age, and was often reprimanded for walking through the house while reading a book, instead of paying attention to what it was my parents had asked me to do. It didn’t help that I was as clumsy then as I am now, so being engrossed in what I was reading could turn into an extreme sport.

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