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The Big Issue

WALK ON, WALK ON

It seems like such a long time ago that I started this walk, yet so soon that I appear to be at around the halfway stage.

Time changes once inside the black hole that is the long-distance walk tunnel. Unlike other walks I've done, this walk is more of a kind of pilgrimage to help shed two-and-a-half years of increasing anxiety, exhaustion and loss of both confidence and identity caused by homelessness, a poor financial situation and rather unpleasant personal circumstances. Then three-and-a-half months of isolated winter lockdown to top it all off! Something completely different

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