As I walked back from the shop, I became aware that the street was rammed with parked cars. I’d had to leave the Defender in the middle of the road because all the parking spaces were taken, a fact that I hadn’t registered at the time because I was getting used to driving and parking wherever took my fancy. I wandered down the road trying to figure where everyone had been going. I didn’t have to walk far. I turned the corner and there they were. Perhaps a thousand, maybe more. It must have been some kind of local football club or community centre. There was a long, low building on one side and
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