Out-takes II

A watch of nightingales finished a set piece and settled down into silence.
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And yet, he thought to himself when he finally escaped to the Gents and settled himself down, would they be so keen and so effusive if they knew that he hadn’t had one good dump in the last fifteen years.
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I was still hearing [...]






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