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Storyteller . Survivor . Sightseer .

Memoirs from a Dublin storyteller, home and abroad, in sickness and in health. Despite multiple cancers and heart failure I'm still tearing the heaven from the hell...

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October 30, 2016

Pacific Coast Highway

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