March 13th

Two young women leaving a bookshop…

“Look, you’re already really clever but… I just mean if you had gone to a Montessori or nursery it… it would have helped…”

The second woman stands a moment, mouth open, face scrunched. Her friend walks on, still talking.

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On the Central Line home, two men in suits. One is wearing dark trainers. The one in shoes -

“I’ll go through it with you cos it could be a case of conspiracy to supply, yeah? But we’ll go through the texts. If they said like ‘Can you give us 2kg’, who’s to say what that is 2kg of? Is it cocaine? Who can say? We’ll go through it…”

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