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  1. Cover
  2. By the same author
  3. SUZY SUZY
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Glossary of Dialect Terms
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  89. About William Wall
  90. An Invitation from the Publisher

So that night we had a campfire and a bit of a sing-song and someone sang the Beetles hit Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds. And I said that’s what we’ll call her, Lucy. And that is how she came to be named. She was forty per cent complete, which is a lot for a three point two million year old person. I got famous then because I disocvered her. Now i am a professor and I have a good job. And it is all down to finding Lucy. She was the most exciting discovery of my life.

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So we set a fire. It was not a big fire. And it did not go well. It happened a night Serena was sleeping over again. My mam was happy that Serena and me were back together again because Serena’s father is idk a surgeon of some kind maybe eyes and my mam is impressed by that. My dad is impressed too but he never says anything. Like doctors are gods in this country. She even bought us a Chinese to eat in my room. I hate the smell of ex-Chinese food. Or Chinese ex-food. The sweety-soury smell. I like noodles though. And crispy duck is ace.

We consumed the Chinese. Or I consumed it and Serena had some noodles. Like maybe four. We listened to music with one earphone each (Serena’s set fell into the toilet and she flushed it because it was ew), watched a movie, Love Actually. My third time. But watching it with Serena is hell. She can tell me that the CD track that Karen is listening to when she’s crying is track 7 – she pauses it to show me – but the correct track on the correct Joni Mitchell CD is like 12 or something, and time goes backwards when Sarah and Karl are in the bedroom according to the bedside clock, and when David goes to Downing Street his tie keeps changing between scenes, stuff like that. I like Joni Mitchell but I’d say Serena has never even heard her. Serena totally ruined Love Actually. Then we took selfies in various poses. And basically we waited until three in the morning because Serena said nobody wakes up between three and four. Except I know my dad often goes for a pee around four. Except since his operation he has been out of it on drugs, so he holds on to it until Mam wakes him. I wish I had some of what he’s taking.