One Million Project issue 1 | Page 9

Wednesday were shopping and sometimes a trip
to the beauty parlour to get her hair done and
on Saturday it were the number 17a to Church
Row and the Senior Club. She just had to get
there - that nice Mr. Nandoori would drop her
back after along with Phyllis and Joy from Flats
143 and 709.

... she smiled remembering how young he
looked with his blonde hair and those lovely
blue eyes covered with those thick glasses
he wore all his life. Her Matthew. Gone six
years now after fifty nine years of marriage.
She had played them and one or two others
against each other but finally she realised
Matthew were the one and now she wished

That particular arrangement went back two
years and Enid was quite used to Mr. Nandoori
now; in fact it were a point of pride about her
new found liberal graciousness and she liked to
boast about her brown friend ... he were an Indian chap y'know.

She wanted attention or gifts or just company
but when she got them, she would soon become irritated and bored by degrees and at
age 87 it were no different. Her visitors would
come and she would enjoy their company but
soon, in her mind she would feel drained and
fatigued by it and wish they'd stop bothering
her.

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