Call it osmosis, but I learned a great deal just by surrounding myself with civic-minded thought leaders like Mary Anne Petrillo, Senior Marketing Manager Corporate Responsibility at Cisco, who taught me about using story-telling to amplify social impact.

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"I didn't really know anybody, so I would just go out by myself every week back and forth, " he says.

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So I just kind of sat there by myself.

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"I'm aiming for the Highlands in August, but that's a long way off - I'm just trying to look after myself day by day, " he said.

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Quite by chance, I had myself just played the part of a demon king in a Christmas play at my primary school.

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But it was true, profoundly so, especially when I lived by myself in DC or during the hundred or so times when just the two of us watched the sun descend prettily over a trout stream.

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"I'm writing now and obviously affected by this situation in Boston, so I'm writing about it just to express myself, " he says.

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I'm not sure Cardiff are overlooked as such - it's just that people like myself thought there would be three or four teams pulling away in the Championship by now, with the three teams who came down from the Premier League among them, and that has just not happened.

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On my second day, I steeled myself and tried riding the Segway to a friend's house located just 10 minutes away by car.

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