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Real life

7 October 2017

9:00 AM

7 October 2017

9:00 AM

How reassuringly like old times it is, going to a God-forsaken retail park with Stefano.

We mooch about the DIY store together like an old couple, me with a face like thunder, he quietly pointing out boring things that we need like door handles, whispering the price, knowing exactly when I am liable to blow up.

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