Your wife led us to you through the white picket fence and past your daughter’s house with two tight braids jumping up and down in the window, impatiently waiting to be taken to school.
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Ah yes, a day that will go down in Twitter history: the day JK Rowling declared that Dumbledore and Grindelwald had an ‘intense’ sexual relationship…
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Exeter can seem rather cut off from the wider county. Some even say it is a piece of Surrey transplanted here, but I think they just have not walked far enough from the campus bubble…
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Every time I have to explain this part of my life, I begin with the assurance that I am okay and I have moved on and you shouldn’t worry.
In part, it is because I cannot bear to bring emotion into the description. Being watched with eyes full of pity is consuming and reminds me that I am the all-dreaded word; a ‘victim’.
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I stared listlessly at the darkness beyond my window, the faint reflection of my face in the glass, and nothing else…
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The locals doing the loading are young, but no less adept at smoking their cigarettes while working than the older men – the drivers – who chuff from their front seats…
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