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Where are we headed:
Moving fast but thinking slow,
Blinking in the light

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Afternoons with you:
clean breezes about each ear
and soft, yellow suns.

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I knew each night would end
but soft,
I prayed for rain.

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Zoe Austin is a 34-year-old music teacher with West Midlands blood pumping through her veins, even as she travels the country lanes and dual carriageways of Cambridgeshire, delivering piano, violin and voice lessons to her much beloved pupils.