A few weeks ago, we spent a long weekend going around West Cork, and I was so happy it amazed me. My husband doesn’t always make me happy around the house, but add a road and some scenery and the combination can be very powerful.
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Fourteen. Dew-soaked plimsolls, flying my kestrel before school.
Either pottering around on my own or performing, so I don’t know what kind of person that makes me.
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