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Under The Counter

by Grindlay Clarke

Play Magic BusDespite the inherent cynicism that many of my readers now believe I find it unable to operate on a day-to-day basis without, I can in fact have my heart of stone melted by the good charitable works of others. I am not entirely undiscerning on this front, it should be said: when I read a large newspaper article in which the British TV presenter Noel Edmonds described, at length, the many good works he doesn’t like to talk about (which mainly seemed to consist of inviting poor children to his house to look at his cars) my heart moved considerably less...

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