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The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 180 We Are Strangers

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Sep 17, 2017
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I was feeling very alienated from the family

It wasn’t actually my family it was my partner’s

All her brothers and sisters and their offspring

We were on holiday at Ocean Beach and it was pissing with rain

They were all getting drunk and arguing in the house

I wasn’t drinking in those days and just wanted out

So I stayed in the little room at the back of the …

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