During the winter months in the darkness, after your head-torch's batteries have succumbed and failed in the cold, you are left to feel your way around your environment blindly, whilst being a prisoner of your own mind.

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As you torch your way through five catalogs of items, you start to receive messages.

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"Prior to the electricity, we came in and had to come with a torch or a candle and light your gas, if you had gas, light your candles, " he said.

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At the very end you have the option of getting your photo taken with a replica of the 2012 torch, which you later download online.

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What you've said here today, what you've been saying for eight years, what you stand for, and what I know you will continue to do in the future, is exactly what we're talking about in this citation, about inspiring those who will hopefully be carrying the torch forward with you, and after your departure from the Senate.

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