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Feb 2024
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870. Kate Billintgon moved to Taiwan 🇹�...

Luke Thompson
About this episode

Returning guest Kate Billington suddenly decided to move to the other side of the world, to Taipei in beautiful Taiwan. In this episode we talk about meeting LEPsters in Taipei, her decision to move there, and how everything is going, with the usual conversational tangents along the way. 

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