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I'm going to read the two short poems that I have in the book, and I'm very honoured to be in it.

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T dolls. On the royalty trips of Greenland.

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Everyone took something down for the two year old who herself perched on someone else's back, carried a finger, measured puppets full of tea.

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Vatican would be the church's name for its essentials, without which you can't go on.

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I can't remember which of us took what on the first flight to England for small necessities to live on.

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After Germany, improbably, unprecedentedly stubble kissed us all.

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Me male, as well as my sisters, and said.

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Dylan. I suppose we'll see them here no more.

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And the second point these conversations draws on the passage from one of the wonderful naturalist books by Ian Neale,

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the novelist and naturalist who is the father of Andrew McNeely.

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Andrew's book on him, as is noted by Andrew himself at the end of this book and his his wife and daughter are here, we are all very pleased to see.

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These conversations in memory of Ian Neal. It would have been about this time of the year that we watched the Fieldays near Macroom grow restless,

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preparing to call out to the Canada geese, flying overhead to regions of thick rabbit ice far away from the lead schemes.

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Kindly reclaimed stretches.