"I liked it when I lived there," Cash said. It had always been convenient to meet up with Eli on New Year's Eve, when they both lived there - but then they were adults, and moved to London, and everything was ruined. He thought that there had been another New Year's, but didn't much remember it - the flashes he recalled involved being trapped in a shed, and heat between them.

"But you're right. It has a spat of bad luck, if less - generic crime than London."

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