And in amongst it all were youth from the suburb's rundown estates who dressed in clothes that expressed only too well their relative poverty. The clo...thes advertised desperation rather than high fashion. These young men and women weren't the ones dressed in the colourful psychedelic fabrics and artistically arranged hair that adorned the young people who were jiggling provocatively on the flat wall screens in the shops. Rather they wore a jumble of whatever they could find in the charity shops.. I was horrified; my Johnny was marrying someone else; someone who wasn’t me?This was impossible! Unbearable! I immediately set off to find out all I could about the new love in his life.Using social media with an intensity I had never known before, I cyber-stalked his new fiancée Jackie, quickly learning that she was a freelance graphic designer who came from a rich family and who had been working in the office next to his. Though nearly ten years older than him, you would never have guessed it. ‘I received a notice from the landlord that our lease is expiring and that he has no intention of signing a new one,’ she said looking down at her hands while still wiping them on the apron. Pensively, she fell into a sad silence. With the crowd still standing before her, she didn’t look up at the gathering of homeless visitors that symbolically represented more than a million people she’s fed over the past 15 years. Everyone politely waited for her to speak. ‘Where will we go,’ said one. )Genbu: Those are good eyes. The eyes of a boy who hasn't learned to give up. It'll be a pleasure to close those eyes forever!(He strikes out, and Yahiko dodges.)Genbu: The younger my opponent, the better! Taking away a long future is the greatest of pleasures!(He forms one long staff and strikes downward. Yahiko attempts to catch it again, but Genbu breaks it apart and catches Yahiko's hand with it.)Yahiko: No!Genbu: You're mine!(He throws Yahiko into the air, then forms the staff again to.
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