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I JUST CALLED…
Your name is Frank Tanner.
You were thirty-nine years old. Once.
It was the thirty-first day of October. The year was 1984. An unseasonably warm morning. Wet clothes hanging from washing lines. The way they used to be hung. From one side of the street to the other. Back-to-back bliss.
MRS GHANDI’S BEEN SHOT DEAD. The news of the day. If you recall rightly.
You remember it like yesterday…
Your usual Wednesday morning patrol. A CB call comes through, interrupting Stevie Wonder on Radio 1. Wonderful Stevie.
…TO SAY…
Millgarth Control to 2-9-7-7. Will you attend Kirkgate near to the parish church? A caller reports two men acting suspiciously, says the civvy over the radio, possibly breaking and entering a yellow Ford Cortina Mark V saloon.
You know who that caller is
