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Weekly Contest #168
CHARING CROSS, 1942. If someone had told me a year ago that I’d be spending my twenty-seventh birthday alone, in the buffet bar at Charing Cross, and rather enjoying it, I’d have never believed them. But a lot has happened in the last year or so and frankly there’s nowhere I’d rather be. Of course I could have gone out with Jimmy Fenton from Accounts, who inquired ever so politely if I’d finally accept his offer of a drink this evening to mark the occasion, but quite honestly I’d rather not inhale his cigar smoke, and I’m certainly no...
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