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UR friend the Lovelorn Laird of the West’s epic search for a mate staggers on. The fellow is a tremendous conspiracy theorist, which doesn’t help. He will only interview non-covid-vaccinated candidates, which has rendered the already blasted heath of the Highland dating scene still more sparse. You’d expect there to be a few anti-vaxxers lurking in West Coast caves, undiscovered by

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