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Pleasures of a balanced commute

By Lucy Kellaway

Published: July 2 2006 18:29 | Last updated: July 2 2006 18:29

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One of the greatest thrills you can have as a needy journalist is discovering that the stranger sitting next to you on the train is avidly reading something you wrote in that morning’s newspaper. In 20-odd years I have had such a thrill twice, each time glorious enough to be worth a decade’s wait.

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