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The duck appeared on a Tuesday. Everything else fell apart long before that.Shaun was living alone on a narrowboat in Leicestershire, seven empty whiskey bottles visible from his bed, when a duck refused to leave his window ledge. He told it to go away. It didn't.This is the memoir of…


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“Social anxiety is fascinating like that: it’s not the big things that break you, it’s the small ones.”

After quickly learning why the title of this marvelous book is not ungrammatical, I came across that little gem of observational insight that immediately made the author and me seem sufficiently simpatico to proceed. Both bits of data made me doubly relax as I waited for the world to do the author wrong. It was inevitable. I knew the small things would pile up, and the vicarious glutton in me couldn’t wait to see it happen. After all, worse for you…

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