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High life

Watching my grandchildren schussing down a mountain is what makes me happy now

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

Gstaad

 
As everyone knows, the definition of serendipity is searching for a needle in a haystack, and instead finding a farmer’s daughter. Not so fast, as they say. I live among farmers and haystacks up here in the Alps, and I’ve yet to run into a farmer’s daughter who is worth the buckshot in the bottom.

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