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This City Girl

Today I walked into one of these classy restaurants in town, I do that once in a while so I can clutter my house with expensively branded receipts. I ordered water, it's the only thing I could buy at the moment, also ordered a soda before and walked home feeling robbed, cheated and fighting tears.

So today I fixed myself in a corner where I could observe people indulging in expensive habits and watch them flinch as they paid their bills. In walked this city girl. I call them city girls because I'd be hunted down and crucified if I called them otherwise. She had generous makeup on her face with one of those big hairstyles that look like an umbrella from behind, don't judge me, it's a personal opinion. She chose to sit at a table next to mine without knowing how much I love putting my nose into people’s businesses.

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