Even though our previous experience with inflation is still a living memory for tens of millions of people, hardly anyone in a position of authority can fathom what is now hitting him.

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Importantly, what lessons need to be learned by public authorities and emergency services so one of the worst fires in living memory is not repeated with such a tragic loss of life?

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Others, such as my favorite living short-story writer, Alice Munro, may start with a memory.

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