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It never rains …

19th December 2016 By Mark Jolly

 

The first line of Anna Karenina is ‘All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.’ (A great book, by the way. I’ll do a review of it soon.)

Leo Tolstoy could equally have been writing about cycling. Because all happy days on the bike are alike, and they eventually merge into one, but each unhappy day has its unique hell that stays imprinted on your mind for the rest of your life. [Read more…] about It never rains …

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