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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20070114
Author:John Preston

Lilies

The Baby Borrowers

In the summer of 1704, a Scottish sailor called Alexander Selkirk - he was to be the model for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe - was marooned on the Pacific island of Mas Terra. Stuck on the beach with nothing but the empty ocean before him and uninhabited wilderness behind, he was overcome with 'the most terrible sense of aloneness, the like of which few men can have had the misfortune to experience'.

He should try going to Rotherham General Hospital at 8.30 on a weekday morning. 'Here's an empty theatre,' said Gerry Robinson in surprise as he made his first tour of ...

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