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Fri 03 Mar 2010Fear not: heaven is just around the corner
The woman on the train said there was no luck left in Ireland, but I was lucky – I had tickets to The Waterboys
ON FRIDAY, I saw a man on the train who looked sick; his face was devastated, as if someone had just slapped the life out of him. His hair was tossed and his hands were white and watery. A woman beside him was talking on the phone to her babysitter.
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