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And I stood in a car park on Fairlane Road on a Tuesday night in February and worked out that the answer was that it had never happened to me, not once, in fifty-eight years.
Aracely Espinoza spoke after me.
She had not told me she was going to.
She had signed the card at 6:51, three minutes after I did, and she had written hers out longhand and she read it, and it took her a minute and fifty seconds because she read it slowly and stopped twice.
She said her daughter’s name.
She said the six dates.