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The invitation came. This was my promise to the editors. My abstract of abstraction called: “The embodiment of father and sons: In bits and pieces of flesh, memory, time, and place”.
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Sparkes, A.C. (2013). Autoethnography at the Will of the Body. In: Short, N.P., Turner, L., Grant, A. (eds) Contemporary British Autoethnography. Studies in Professional Life and Work. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-410-9_13
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