Shoreditch, 14 January 2019.

Two staff members leaning on the counter in a near empty Shoreditch cafe.

“I use to be cool though, I really did…. I miss being cool.”

“What was ‘cool’ about you?”

“When I was in my early twenties I used to have cool friends and go to cool parties. And I was somebody to HAVE at your party you know? People would be like ‘wahey!’ when I walked in.”

“And THAT makes you cool?”

“Well…it used to.”

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