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December 1st, 2002

Andrew Darrel grew up in southern Hampshire and South London. He left the UK in 1978, initially intending to spend only a year or so abroad, making his living temporarily by teaching English as a foreign language. He never really took to teaching but found he enjoyed living abroad, so he never went back home. Twenty-one years later, thanks to the generosity of King Fahad ibn Abdulaziz, he had saved up enough to be able to give up teaching, and indeed to give up full-time work entirely, for a while at least. In those twenty-one years he had worked in different parts of Italy and in Egypt and Saudi Arabia; he had spent a year-and-a-half studying in Portland, Ore., and had stayed for various periods in self-declared tax exile in central Spain. At the beginning of 2000 he returned to Rome, and is still there, working part-time in a high school library and a bookshop, and talking all the time about moving on to somewhere better. His Black Lamb column is called Roman Annals.

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