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Looking for Aisha

Looking for Aisha — School library, Birmingham, 1999

School library, Birmingham, United Kingdom Spring 1999, afternoon

We were the only two who used the library at lunch in year ten. We had a running joke about the librarian's identical cardigans and left notes in the back of the same battered fantasy novel for a whole term. Her family moved mid-year and the last note I left was never answered. I still have the book, and both of our handwriting is in it.

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Around 15 at the time · female · Braces, always reading fantasy paperbacks with the covers folded back.

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