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At home with a 'hermit': Cricket-loving Bollywood enthusiast has been collecting data on snow from his home in
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• Billy Barr, 66, moved to Gothic, Colorado, in 1973 to get away from city life • His first winter he recorded weather and wildlife patterns twice every day • After 43 years in Gothic, he still records that data, which is being used to help understand climate change • Though he does get lonel
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