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FIGHTING TALK - Tsunami survivor
FIGHTING TALK - Tsunami survivor
Monday, December 27, 2004
A close friend of mine was swept away from his breakfast table on a Thai beach by the most devastating natural disaster in my living memory. In an email to his parents in Alexandra, at 8.37pm while we waited for any news, he wrote: "I am very lucky to be alive". Lucas always was the master of understatement.
http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004/12/hamish-mckenzie-lucky-alexandra.html
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