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Drifter #3

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Nigel was new in Reading. He'd wandered Cardiff city centre for weeks begging for a little change, scanning the wet streets for pennies or stray fivers. His aim was to get to London, those streets of opportunity where a person could live just by keeping an eye out.

Unfortunately he could only afford a ticket as far as Reading.

The others here acted strangely though. They gathered in the light, whereas everyone knew the best places were round the backs of big stores. So he huddled in the exhaust of an air conditioning vent. Watching the heavy flakes of snow.

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