Perhaps it’s because I’ve been reading more creative/expressive/cultural works of late, or perhaps it’s because this anecdote is part of a larger one involving a rather Strange Day Out (or perhaps it’s – somewhat unintentionally – actually quite relevant to the subject at hand), but the following is written in a more literary fashion than what’s usually…
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