It was chalked on the bog wall and spread quickly round school – a whisper to a chant in the playground.
“Pippin’s mum’s only got one tit!”
Odd.
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We’d played darts at Pippin’s last summer. The house on the corner, halfway up Steep Street. I kept score.
We smoked his mum’s cigarettes, drank his dad’s scrumpy.
“Withered apples,” Pippin explained.
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SLOW DOWN!
“They drive too fast down Steep Street.”
CAUTION!
One day a milk lorry overturned.
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Milk pooled in the street. Pippin’s mum was already out there, drenched.
An almost ghost, with bucket. It made no sense.
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I pocketed the chalk.
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