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RSPB Spotlight: Puffins

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Jul 10, 2026 03:55PM

That was what I’d always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn’t move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.

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