To me, the past isn’t just a foreign country, it’s a fantastical theme park with no queues, because the world wasn’t so annoyingly overpopulated then (indeed, there were 3 billion fewer people in it when I turned 18 and went overseas for the first time).
The past is full of seemingly implausible things, like prime ministers you actually wanted to vote for, one-cent musk sticks, taking your own (absurdly cheap) beer to the cricket, video shops (where I…
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