Hello there!

A few years ago, I was absolutely adamant that I would, under no circumstances whatsoever, even contemplate starting a blog. Blogs, I proclaimed self-righteously, were for struggling writers who had no other platform to air their grievances and who decided, in a desperate bid to be heard, to send their writings and musings out to cyberspace in order to burden unsuspecting web geeks with their (usually highly unarticulated) innermost thoughts.

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