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    ‘Great care’

    Posted by Will Jackson on May 2, 2013. No comments.

    It’s a Wednesday afternoon and a standoff is in progress at a childcare centre. Inside is a gunman who moments before shot and killed a security guard while robbing a bank.

    Most of the children, teachers and staff have escaped from the centre but the gunman has hostage a three-year-old girl Alice, a four-year-old boy Tom and teacher Julie Anderson, 34.

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    How to be happy

    Posted by Will Jackson on February 9, 2013. No comments.

    I was once an unhappy man. I was moderately successful in my work – earning me a moderate amount of money – and had a moderate number of friends. But my soul – like most people’s I suspect – was still plagued by a deep, unsatisfiable bleakness.

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