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My immense journey

IN MY NEARLY 76 YEARS on this planet, I’ve travelled a total of 2.8 trillion kilometres. Trillion? Incredible. But you have, too, or with luck and good health you will.

Let’s start by counting those 76 voyages around the Sun. Any distance we might have accumulated on the surface of

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