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Year View| Summary| Highlights| Month View| Thursday 8 August 2002 (Day View)

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08.08.2002 – Thursday 8 August

• Dad went to town. Ricki phoned up looking for me. Mum phoned up in the evening to let us know they’d done a test and so far it looked hopeful, although we won’t know until tomorrow.

• Yes, that’s truly how exciting my days are.