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I haven’t grown up.
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Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.
My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
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