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Summertown, Oxford – The Next Day
In the morning, Petra went for a run before breakfast. Even at 7am it was hot, humid and cloudy – storm weather. Back at the hotel Petra showered, washed her hair and dressed in her costume. For that's what she thought of the blue and white print skirt she'd bought in a charity shop. It was a costume that she would don for the part she was about to play. The only difference in what she was about to do was that the audience of one, Deanna Morgan, would be on stage with her.
As soon as Deanna opened the door to the basement home office, Petra knew that her print skirt and pumps had been the right choice. It echoed Deanna Morgan’s style, a woman who on first sight would have passed for the leggy girl about town she'd probably once been.
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