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Disappointment-ology
Correspondence to:
Dr J Launer, London Deanery, Stewart House, London WC1B 5DN, UK; jlauner@londondeanery.ac.uk
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The couple sitting in front of me on the bus were canoodling—there is no other word for it. They were an oddly matched pair. He was in his twenties, swarthy and Mediterranean, wearing a baseball cap and a fashionably thin beard. He looked a bit of a lad. She was oriental—Thai, perhaps, or Chinese. She seemed quite a lot older than him, and was dressed more elegantly, in a clinging black number. As they intertwined, I wondered for a moment if it was a coincidence that human embraces so closely resemble chromosomal crossover. The three of us were almost alone on the top deck. They cast me the odd backward glance in their pauses between one peak of desire and the next. I tried to pretend I was unaware of them, but their passion was theatrical, and it was hard not to watch.
Considering their difference in ages and culture,
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