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Flat White

It’s the simple things that kill you or save you

12 August 2024

2:00 AM

12 August 2024

2:00 AM

In 2016, when my car broke down about 40kms across the southern Mali border, I asked my supply guy and interpreter if we had water. It was the middle of a West African summer. He said he’d forgotten. I responded by saying, ‘When I die, I want it to be heroic and action-packed.’

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