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For a while there, many years back now, I wrote a series of reviews and interviews for an Auckland newspaper under a fake name. I needed a generic-sounding – safe – pen-name. I chose ‘Mark Reid’. A little tribute to Chopper eh? Something like that…In fact it just seemed like a safe/boring name that couldn’t be connected to me. I then dashed out copy wee…
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