Thing is, I'm not the surrendering type. Anyway I'm looking up and down that track. It was the highway or the… — Tim Winton
Thing is, I'm not the surrendering type. Anyway I'm looking up and down that track. It was the highway or the wildywoods. That was the decision. Between something that's real and something you hope is real. I was banking everything on this call and maybe I wasn't fully right in the head by then but I went east. Roll the dice, that's me.
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