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Tim Dowling: having a tortoise reminds you that life is long

My wife got ours when she was eight, and he came to live with us soon after we got married. I don’t remember anything about that in the vows It is the first truly bleak day of autumn – the sky is a deep grey and a steady drizzle is falling.

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