“An ode to the friends I made 10 years ago on the train home for Christmas”
. I know because 10 years ago I was facing spending Christmas Day somewhere between Reading and Castle Cary.
But, after the collective calls to family and friends to vent our frustrations and tell them to stay put until we had more information, our own little Christmas miracle occurred. We took off our headphones, put down our phones and started to chat – offering up half-eaten boxes of mince pies, glasses of prosecco and tales of Christmas party revelry to pass the time.That night two things happened: I made three newfriends who I still exchange birthday wishes with a decade on.
“We found we had a lot in common: mutual friends, a love of Padrón peppers and the shared experience of leaving Cornwall aged 18 to pursue our dreams in London”
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