Back then, dying was expensive business

It might surprise many of you that from the age of about 14,
Back then, dying was expensive business
Fri, 03 Nov, 2017 - 00:00

by Cormac MacConnell

It might surprise many of you that from the age of about 14, I was regularly attending an average of three funerals weekly, representing my father.

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