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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this piece! I remember when I was a kid we lived next door to this old farmer who lived in converted railway carriages. I loved him, his name was Ephraim and he was so interesting but he used to tell my mum every day without fail how he owned 4ft of our garden which would make my mother wild! When I was studying for my law degree one of our core modules was 'Land law' and I found it incredibly boring but the bit I did like was learning about 'adverse possession' which I found so interesting. I agree, owning land is and fencing it off is so capitalist and it goes against everything I believe in, youre right - we are just caretakers passing through but I always think about how if I owned a tonne of land would I think differently?

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