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When I was very small my family had been to the beach and when we came back I asked my father how many grains of sand there were in the whole world. He said he didn't know about the whole world but told me a very large number which was the amount of grains there was in the UK. He said he knew because when he was younger, he had a job counting all the sand on all the beaches in the country. For a long time I believed him and had a very clear picture in my head of him on his hands and knees, on a beach counting each and every grain of sand. I remember thinking well, as a job that kind of sucks but someone's got to do it otherwise we wouldn't know how much sand there was.
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