Matt Barnes: Secrets, Missions, Postcards and Packages
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Last published Sun, Dec 24, 2017
My family's friend, Matt Barnes, has sent us postcards and all sorts of knickknacks from the places he's been around the world. And he's been to a lot of places. I'm not sure what he does there exactly. I'm not even sure my parents know. Anyway, I keep the postcards, stacks of them, from all around the world from him.
When he sends us things, I like to guess what he's been doing there. I just imagine what might have been going on.
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