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Beautiful Game

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Dear Koko,  Seeing as the end of another year is round the corner, I am in a pensive and philosophical mood. So you have to put up with it.  I have this box of currency which I had started building many many years ago. It is a tin box full of coins from different countries. These coins and bills have been made in a far off land, but they are sitting in a dark corner in my closet. I bring them out sometimes and stack them into neat piles, try and remember how I got them and them put them back in. For a brief moment, I am floating above my daily woes and am transported to a different land almost. I had forgotten how much joy this seemingly simple activity gave to me.  This year when the FIFA World Cup started, it was a similar experience. You have taken a keen interest in football, but I think this is thanks to your obsession with PlayStation. So when you would say that you want to stay awake to watch matches, I would laugh. Staying awake at night and watching matches was something I had