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The Guardian - UK
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Tim Dowling

Tim Dowling: I have a new mystery ailment but sympathy is in short supply

An illustration of alphabet letters and two pieces of paper around a cutout photograph of Tim Dowling, with a background of different coloured circles and pen strokes

I wake up with a headache. Not a headache, really – more of a head pain, and not exactly that either. I am sitting in the kitchen opposite the middle one, who is staring at his computer. My wife is wandering in and out, not really listening to the symptoms I’m trying to describe.

“It’s like I walked through a low doorway and cracked my skull on the frame,” I say.

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