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19 January 2020 - 00:00
There was something simultaneously strange and familiar about the girl in the green top. She was standing in the aisle, head tilted back, searching the balconies above for someone she had arranged to meet. She waved her arms about, turning round and round. I recognised that look on her face — part embarrassed that she was standing in front of a thousand people, trying to attract the attention of one person who wasn't seeing her; part annoyed because they'd made a plan and where is this fool?; part desperate because what if they can't find each other before the lights go down and the show starts?..
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