“I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.”
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I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
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