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Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

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Nick Hornby
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 17
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