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By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.

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Robyn Davidson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 6
Writer
Miles
Queensland
Australia
Along
Walked
Retained
Deep
Brown
Baked
Longer
Skin
Harness
Skins
Leather
Naked
Clothings
Putrid
Sun
Utterly
Terra
Clothes
Unnecessary
Penetrated
Usually
Hats
Constituency

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