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solar power.

In one life she was an aid worker in Botswana.
In one life a cat-sitter.
In one life a volunteer in a homeless shelter.
In one life she was sleeping on her only friend’s sofa.

In one life she taught music in Montreal.
In one life she spent all day arguing with people she didn’t know on
Twitter and ended a fair proportion of her tweets by saying ‘Do better’ while
secretly realising she was telling herself to do that.

In one life she had no social media accounts.
In one life she’d never drunk alcohol.
In one life she was a chess champion and currently visiting Ukraine for a
tournament.

In one life she was married to a minor Royal and hated ever y minute.
In one life her Facebook and Instagram only contained quotes from Rumi
and Lao Tzu.
In one life she was on to her third husband and already bored.

In one life she was a vegan power-lier.
In one life she was travelling around South America and caught up in an
earthquake in Chile.
In one life she had a friend called Becky, who said ‘Oh what larks!’

whenever anything good was happening.
In one life she met Hugo yet again, diving off the Corsican coast, and they
talked quantum mechanics and got drunk together at a beachside bar until
Hugo slipped away, out of that life, mid-sentence, so Nora was le talking to

a blank Hugo who was tr ying to remember her name.
In some lives Nora attracted a lot of attention. In some lives she attracted
none. In some lives she was rich. In some lives she was poor. In some lives
she was healthy. In some lives she couldn’t climb the stairs without getting

out of breath. In some lives she was in a relationship, in others she was solo,
in many she was somewhere in bet ween. In some lives she was a mother, but
in most she wasn’t.
She had been a rock star, an Olympian, a music teacher, a primar y school

teacher, a professor, a CEO, a PA, a chef, a glaciologist, a climatologist, an
acrobat, a tree-planter, an audit manager, a hair-dresser, a professional dog
walker, an office clerk, a soware developer, a receptionist, a hotel cleaner, a