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Tuesday 1 August 2006 | I like a cookie

On my way to therapy this morning, I ran over a baby bird. No, no, I mean it—I ran over it, the wheels of the Daewoo straddling it. It was one of those awful by-the-time-you-realize-what-it-is-it’s-too-late things, so in the milliseconds remaining to me I tried to align the car evenly, wincing in anticipation, looking back [...]

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