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As in the Lord of the Rings, it is not a Jedi Knight, or a superman or muscleman or gun-slinging cowboy who is the hero, it is one of the common folks who rises to the occasion when greatness is demanded by the times and situation.

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I love finding, wearing, and more recently, photographing and blogging a different, colorful, crazy outfit for every single occasion.

It's a very rare occasion that you get to actually witness an iceberg rolling.

On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners.

And the reason I'm looking a little bit perplexed in this photograph is I was somewhat frightened, and I was too afraid on this occasion to ask him, having run for an hour through the desert and taken refuge in this house, why he had turned up and wanted to have his photograph taken with me.

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