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The healing power of sweat

13 March 2021

9:00 AM

13 March 2021

9:00 AM

Laikipia

In one of Kenya farmer Karen Blixen’s short stories, a character says: ‘I know of a cure for everything: salt water… Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea’. After two months on the Indian Ocean shore since Mum left us, I set off on the two-day drive back to the farm.

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