T w e n t y - s e v e n
“Welcome to this meeting, to those of you who haven’t been here before it might seem a little odd, but trust the process and things will seem to get better before long.” Alicia looked around at the circle of people gathered in the tiny village hall. She had lived in the city of Norwich for only a short time, less than a year in total. She had felt the need to go somewhere completely different after she recovered from her heart transplant surgery, and live some place where sympathetic stares didn’t follow her everywhere she went. It was soon common knowledge at home that she had been the only survivor in the crash that took her parents’ lives. From then on, even the lady in the corner shop that she bought her lunch from on the days she couldn’t be bothered to make it herself would look
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