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Graham Spaid

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Spaid once slept in a cemetery in Greece (it seemed like the safest place to spend the night outside). In India, he was forced off a bus by rioters. He’s been robbed – and mistaken for a thief, a priest, a concert pianist, Woody and Tony Blair. He was examined by a dentist called Dr Fang. The rest isn't silence. BBC Radio broadcast a humorous story he wrote, set in South India.

An Australian, he has travelled in over thirty countries, working as a language tutor in Greece, Italy and Taiwan, as well as a teacher in India, Australia and the UK, where he now lives with his wife.
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tireless:

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Sex on every Paige

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Home truths

I arrived one day at a pupil’s house.  The boy’s uncle let me in, and called upstairs, “Adil, your tutor’s here.”“Oh, shit!” floated back, softly and bitterly.  Adil is sixteen.  He’s calm and pleasant.  Too calm at times.  In one lesson, he fell asleep.  How do you wake someone who’s bigger than you?   I’ve fallen asleep too.  In my lesson.  I really have.  Oh, shit!  I felt sorry for him when he Read more of this blog post »
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Published on August 30, 2015 10:39
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“I guess if you get too close, the twinkling stops; they don’t look like stars anymore.”
Graham Spaid, tireless:

“I wouldn't dignify it with the name immoral.”
Graham Spaid, tireless:

“You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what’s happening on another planet, but not what’s going on inside the person next to you.”
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