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• Everything as it was; and everything has changed. - change/perception/reality

• It tastes of importance and of being grown up - maturity/ rites of passage/ loss of innocence

• He was the officer corps in our two-man army.

• No one could smile like that and have secrets from the world. (A Dee)

• Auntie Dee's "unguarded smile"

• Lamorna is the correct scientific description of the bobbly texture of her purse and the shininess of its button - feelings/ sexual maturity/ senses

• He was the leader and I was the led - relationship between S and K

• Once again all I've done is play the loyal disciple

• I piece together a world of sorts from the different densities of blackness, and from a few small sounds.

• You understand that sometimes people find themselves isolated.

• I think you do understand.

• You showed her our things.

• Or is memory being overwritten by hindsight...?

• No, wait. I've got that wrong.

• I see all things I never saw before.

• There were secrets.

• precarious tango

• I feel the awkward twist of my body as I edge my way sideways (not sure if that's exactly right).

• I seem to be trapped between those two smiles.

• ....and rested is how she always seemed.

• He looks straight into my eyes, no longer smiling...

• Something has changed about the perfume of the air.

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