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Everyone’s Watching The Strange New Girl in Town
I blushed, imagining complements, jokes, insults
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3 min readJan 21, 2023
Vermoulle was a delightful town, but on arrival I could hardly speak the language. Aglow with optimism, I met waves of hostility and suspicion.
Men saw an opportunity, women a threat. Shopkeepers saw only a customer but at least they…