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Mary Wakefield

Machetes and the middle classes

30 July 2015

1:00 PM

30 July 2015

1:00 PM

Another stabbing in my new neighbourhood, not with an axe or with a samurai sword this time, but a machete. The samurai sword incident was back in the spring. The magnolia was in bloom and the citizens of London N1 were about their innocent business, reading for book club and baking (wheat-free).

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