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Brenda Henderson

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Pas de deux

Pas de deuxThe intense midday sun failed to penetrate the little Parisian café, now mostly filled with students wearing their intellectual hearts on their sleeves and bemoaning the world they had inherited. No change here then, it was ever thus. An older couple sat slightly apart. She blew a soft curl of smoke in his face. He remembered that habit. It had irritated him then and it irritated him now, forty years on.  'What arrogance, what condescension,' he thought. He looked at her stained fingers and puckered skin. How had he ever foun...

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Pas de deux

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Pas de deuxThe intense midday sun failed to penetrate the little Parisian café, now mostly filled with students wearing their intellectual hearts on their sleeves and bemoaning the world they had inherited. No change here then, it was ever thus. An older couple sat slightly apart. She blew a soft curl of smoke in his face. He remembered that habit. It had irritated him then and it irritated him now, forty years on.  'What arrogance, what condescension,' he thought. He looked at her stained fingers and puckered skin. How had he ever foun...

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