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Introducing myself: Michael Blackbourn

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Yup, had a minor stroke in '95. The recovery from it was gruelling, largely because I also chose to give up booze after 27 years of drinking like a whale. Being clean and sober is a damned sight stranger than being inebriated.
 
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Truly sorry to hear all that - but very happy to see that, however rocky and twisty the path, it brought you here.
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Indeed, thank you Bernard. I've never quite understood that two roads diverged in the wood option, where the poet took the one less travelled - at least so far as my own life went. I crashed off the road altogether, hacking my way through the undergrowth and making friends with a few beasts along the way. I've re-emerged into civilisation to write about it all, for after all, what are writers but explorers of life?
 
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