I am sitting on a concrete jetty in a small town on the east coast of Amerika<\/p>\n
My feet are dangling in the pleasantly warm sea<\/p>\n
Our dog Lucy is watching a few gulls squabbling over a striken sandwich<\/p>\n
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I have closed my eyes and am working in a bookstall on platform 12<\/p>\n
On Etawah railway station in faraway India which has given me a problem<\/p>\n
As I speak only English and a little French and none of the local tongues<\/p>\n
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About two years ago this town along with many others was hit by a hurricane<\/p>\n
Most of the damage has been repaired although this jetty still shows signs of damage<\/p>\n
Today is my free day away from the store and I am sketching in my blue notebook<\/p>\n
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Although I feel strange in this new environment and the heat is rather oppressive<\/p>\n
I do enjoy the wonderfully illuminated expresses that scream through the station<\/p>\n
Fully on horn only feet from my brightly coloured bookstall on platform 12<\/p>\n
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My wife works in the visitors centre and is due to join me for lunch in a hour<\/p>\n
We have lived here for just over five years and are late of Boston<\/p>\n
My name is Samuel Twain and I am a not very successful artist<\/p>\n
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Quite how I came to be here on this railway platform thousands on miles away from home<\/p>\n
Is a complete mystery to me as the last thing I can remember was sketching my dog at rest and play<\/p>\n
I wonder if my colleague on platform six is sitting on a jetty in a small coastal town thinking only of me<\/p>\n
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