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Margaret Doubell and Tony Haynes have been telling Eye about a mythical country called Ruritania. They’ve been reading a collection of yearly meeting reports of said country, published as a book recently by Phillip Gething. This name may occur to some – slightly older – readers from spoof reports published in the Friend nearly twenty years ago.According to Margaret and Tony, an internet search will reveal that Ruritania is in fact a fictional European country. ‘But is it really?’ our two Friends ask, suggesting that ‘maybe it exists’.
They have given Eye some examples from the book of issues that have exercised Ruritanian Quakers:
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