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After birth
Thessaloniki, April 1972
It was a beautiful spring morning, and, rather unusually for Dinos, he decided to walk to the office. Leonora had teased him often enough in the last few years about his sedentary lifestyle and his rapidly expanding belly. ‘That car has become an extension of your body’, she would tell him. ‘Ditch it and go for a walk instead. You will see how much better you will feel. Not only you will breathe better, but your mood will improve too.’
He took a sharp right at the crossroads before Agia Sofia church, one of the city’s landmarks, a meeting point for young couples and busy businessmen. To his surprise, it didn’t take him longer to walk to the office than it would have taken him to drive there with all the traffic one could encounter at this time of
