Making a Scene

Making a Scene

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moments around a heatwave

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Sophia Jennings
Aug 15, 2023
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1. It starts in London.

There's a couple next to me. They aren’t together, I don’t think. Both are in their seventies. The man is telling the woman that she shouldn’t have written, “hope you have a happy day” on a birthday card to her sister-in-law whose husband just died. “But it’s just such a lovely card,” she sighs. “I’d hate to waste it.”

The man look…

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