5/28/2023 0 Comments Exciting times by naoise dolan![]() ‘You’re from Ireland,’ said Victoria, as though for my information. Ralph watched us and seemed to think: women are good at talking. We talked and talked, mutually baffled as to why such a thing was happening when neither of us thought it should. Sometimes her eyes said: I don’t know why, either. She was so beautiful I couldn’t see why she was talking to me. Ralph’s girlfriend Victoria was good at wearing clothes. Later in the conversation he called himself ‘a PPEist’ who’d been ‘a bit of a Union hack’. One great-grandparent on each side, which meant Éire owed him a whole grandparent, morally.) He’d voted for Brexit to have tighter borders, and was applying for an Irish passport to avoid being stopped at them. In November we went for brunch on Aberdeen Street with Ralph, pronounced ‘Rafe’, who’d gone to Balliol with Julian, now worked at his bank, and had an alleged flotilla of Hibernian great-grandparents. ![]()
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