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West Kensington, London – The Next Day
Being freelance had huge advantages; Petra was able to tell the private security company that she wasn’t available for assignments until further notice. This meant she could spend the three days after meeting Rafi thinking: about her father, about Alon, and about the past. She emptied the old shoebox that contained Papa’s memorabilia, passports, birth, death and marriage certificates on to the carpet and sat cross-legged, grasping for what was gone.
The age-stained documents smelt of decay and tears. Among them, tucked between crinkled paper there was a single black and white photograph; two boys holding hands with a woman wearing a coat and hat. She walked towards the camera smiling with the stubborn determination of someone on a holiday they c
