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Bright Fame, Dark Life: Chapter 2
We celebrated Christmas by wandering the streets of an unfamiliar town, staring through windows at families opening presents, eating turkey, laughing and chattering. There wasn't much laughter for us that Christmas.
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Bright Fame, Dark Life: Chapter 1
Imagine it. A large gloomy council estate in the poor part of a big town. The kind of place where there are gangs of children or glum teenagers and stray dogs everywhere no matter what time of day or what day of the week. The kind of place that policemen would pretend didn't exist, knowing they would have a field day if they had the courage to search it, but never having the courage. The kind of place where every boy over the age of nine or so carries a knife and every woman has a horde of children, rarely with a father in sight. The kind of place where people don't live, they survive.
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Bright Fame, Dark Life: Prelude
I'm sitting at my desk, as I write this. My desk is streaked with beams of English sunshine shining through the open window. It is summer. Dust dances in the light. The window opens onto the garden. The soft scent of the roses floats in the air. I can hear a child's laughter. My beautiful daughter with golden curls that glint in the sun and blue eyes that are the eternal sunshine of my life. She is five now. Five years old.
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