The long and the short of it
Oct 04, 2021
3 minutes
Illustration: Joseph Joyce
We chatted about the weather and why buses always came in threes – the usual kind of small talk. When I helped him on to the bus he thanked me and asked where I was from – a rare occurrence, in my experience, because in London so many people possess multiple identities that difference is presumed to be the norm. If you want to explain everything properly – where your parents were born, where you grew up, where
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