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Kenya's troubles started long ago

The reason people become garrulous with advancing years is that one disjointed memory leads to another and before you know it, it has turned into an incoherent flood of recollections.

One week I am going on about the old improvident unbanked days, the next I am babbling about mone-ylenders and their sinful ways and then I touch on a thought that gives vent to even more memories.

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