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New Year, New Writers: Episode 1: Departures

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A woman yearns for some January sun until an airport encounter changes everything.

4 Extra Debut. A woman yearns for some January sun until an airport encounter changes everything. Read by Julie Duncanson. From January 2012.

Stories to mark the New Year by new writers from Scotland. 
'Departures' by Katy McAulay. 
A woman yearns for some January sun until an encounter at the airport changes everything. Read by Julie Duncanson.

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