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Things have been getting weird here on the mudflats and it’s not just because I’m walking around in circles.

No, it’s not the drugs. Actually, it might be the drugs, the pain killing variety anyway. Last month I got a new knee on the old principle that a few new parts gives the machine a new lease on life.

I wore my knees out playing footy, riding bikes through Guyra in winter, kneeling on

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