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64
So he came and went, came and went, came and stayed.
Fergus and his ex reconciled four more times, but he didn’t
give up the room until he had to return to South East
London one day. But that’s still a long way off and, for the
time being, we need to know that he stayed almost seven
years, and I learned that love, like the meaning of life, is as
serious and painful an issue as abandonment, and that you
can love even if you’ve been abandoned, and that you can
leave even if you love.
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