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Mary Morrison's avatar

Riveting! I don’t think I’d be sitting back comparing New Zealand to a billiard table!!! And I’d definitely be overusing the exclamation marks by that point!!!!!!! Near death is allowed a lot of punctuational leeway in my book!!!!!!!!! X

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Jonathan Hall's avatar

I'm trying to wean myself off exclamation marks. And semicolons. You should have seen the first draft: more punctuation than alphabet!

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Maeve Kneafsey's avatar

Lovely writing and a great tale of adventure JH

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Jon's avatar

Nicely written!

Sometimes we're lucky and the training sticks, we don't know it, until we have a close call and then realise just how much worse a situation could have been.

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Jonathan Hall's avatar

So true.

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