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Stalking Diary

“I felt like a traveller gazing upon a lost world. There, in front of me, were the fields in which we played and worked. The stone wall around the garden was still there with not a stone removed. My, it was a grand sight, it did me good to see it. I was very sad when I came away, before it was covered up once more

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