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Dec 2020
32m 13s

12. Moving

Bbc World Service
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<p>He’s still here all the time. Yet he’s not. And a diary has more in it than expected. “I’ll feel his absence every day, like a bruise that’s tender to the touch.” A Falling Tree production for the BBC World Service.</p> 
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