After reuniting, I realised that whatever spark had existed between us had been fanned by the ticking clock of my time in London
didn’t travel until my late 20s, which meant I was also a latecomer to what many 18-year-olds discover in the hazy morning light on Kuta Beach or stumbling out of Berlin’s Berghain: nothing fans the fires of romance like a ticking clock. The knowledge that your plane leaves in 24 hours can take a vaguely promising flirtation and turn it into the love for the ages.
I chose to ignore my doubts around his mentioning friendly proximity to Pete Doherty, his diet of gruel, or his having to boil water in a wok because his drunk housemate had done a wee in the kettle. By October, these doubts had grown louder, but I put them down to nerves and got on the plane.
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