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ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

My son is the son and heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. When he was nine, I wrote a poem after we built a den in the woods.

It pondered on whether this would be our final piece of den building (it was). It was only when I first performed it that I found out it made everyone cry. In

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