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Mea culpa

“IF you get kicked out hunting, it’s nearly always your own fault. Of course, there are rare exceptions - some ghastly horse might reverse 30 yards at high speed and double-barrel you without provocation but generally it’s you that has let your brain slip into neutral and got too close to another horse.

In which case, it is my fault that Flynn is currently not bounding around behind the field master on the first day of the “season proper”, but is instead

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