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Karen was just getting off the bus when she received Dan’s call. The noise from the high street made it hard for her to hear what he was saying, so she shuffled into a shop doorway and pressed a finger in her other ear to drown out the sound.
Just like him, she too was taken aback by the offer, but a break from London sounded too good to pass up, so she agreed excitedly.
Karen stopped off on the way home to pick up a bottle of wine from the supermarket.
When she reached her block, she took the lift to the floor above hers and made her way along the corridor to her friend’s flat.
Janice Brown answered the door in her usual short leather skirt and tight blouse. At 55 she had managed to retain the figure that had attracted three ex-husbands, not to mention a host of male admirers.
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