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A tender sporting moment with Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins | Letter

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Paul Mitchell recalls snooker champion Alex Higgins tearfully celebrating his win with his young daughter While I enjoyed your photo feature with its “groundbreaking images [that] have upended assumptions about how men behave, dress and project power” (…

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