And the air is brisk and smells like firewood, like it did during that first London autumn, when you left the world you’d built in Paris to discover a self you could call your own. You didn’t know a single person when you first arrived in London. On that first day it was drizzling horizontal sheets of mist, and you almost slipped on …
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