Mary and the speaker curtseyed to the lady councillor for copies of Collin's Children's Classics.
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Mary and the speaker always competed for top desk in school as children.
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Mary and the speaker both lived in a housing scheme for part of their childhood.
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Hmmmm....
The speaker noticed Mary's father walking his greyhounds while passing by on a high school bus.
Ten years later, the speaker runs into Mary and her husband on her way home from the library. Mary seems to be pregnant and holding her stomach.
Zzzzzzzz
What's she staring at?
As the speaker carries her books home she thinks about 'the prizes that were theirs for the taking and the choices they made they don't remember making'
