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If I told my new friend the truth, our friendship would be over

17 June 2023

9:00 AM

17 June 2023

9:00 AM

‘Achoo!’ was the first thing the girl sitting next to me on the plane said as I took my seat beside her. She groaned and blew her nose, coughed, spluttered, and apologised. ‘It’s hay fever, honestly,’ she said. She was in the window seat, I was in the middle. The older lady beside me in the aisle seat grimaced.

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