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  • 43. Numbers. Not a game.

    We finally got an 8.2. Cody has been riding in the high teens since we were in the departure lounge and the novo doesn’t seem to have been working.  This is scary; it makes you feel powerless.  Drugs = Effect right? Not always, we have learned. It is like the light has come back on…

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  • 42. The makeup free holiday.

    I had great plans of this being a makeup free holiday.  But when I was out with the boy yesterday, every time I looked in a plate glass window, this was staring back at me. I don’t know if it’s my impending dotage breathing on the back of my neck, or the natural state  of…

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  • 41. The new face of Asia

    I went to Kuala Lumpur today and I saw this.

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  • 40. Hate flying. Love flying.

    Here I am at 30 000 feet, looking at my soft white navel again. I have drunk perhaps half a bottle of champagne. I have dissolved the crumbs of maybe three quarters of a Lorazipan under my tongue. The cut of the little white pill at the kitchen bar of Malaysia Airline’s Emerald Lounge wasn’t…

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  • 37. Upside down logic

    If you buy shoes in the Northern Hemisphere, is the  best place for them above your head?

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  • 36. Relief all round

    The boys were all pretty happy to see me home safely. They were at the airport at midnight; Cody vaulted the barriers everyone was standing so neatly behind and threw his arms around me . I think there were a couple of hundred people who enjoyed the reunion. I am happy to have taught my…

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