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I regard all of those living on the Isle of Islay with a kind of awe.

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In a corner of the labyrinthine European Union website (though offered in a mere 12 languages as opposed to the official 23) lurks a page of sprightly optimism.

The Last Toast

I drink to our ruined house
to the dolor of my life
to our loneliness together;
and to you I raise my glass,
to lying lips that have betrayed us,