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I don’t think I’ve ever felt cold like this before.
There wasn’t a hint of snow anywhere but the cold went all the way down to my bones. Even here in a minibus taxi packed with plenty of warm bodies, the cold bit.
I was only wearing a T-shirt and a thin tracksuit pants and hadn’t packed warmer clothes.
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