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"You shouldn't I know I don't have the right to give advice to you I know I can't even begin to understand the world you co here, but I've seenyou, you're the cream of the crop"

"Oh, is that right?"

"Yes, it is," he insisted

I stared into those blue eyes, eyes as pure and as innocent as a summer's sky

"I'm sorry," 1 said "I didn't e and difficulta little homesick, too"

"Funny, isn't it?" he said, nodding, "that no matter how hard or unpleasant we think our home lives are e're there, we miss

it e're far away"

"That's because we're ae place," I said

He nodded and then brightened

"Well, let's keep going and e That's e set out to do today, wasn't it?"

He dug into his pocket again and produced the tourist brochure

"Buckingham Palace" He read to hirabbingme off the bench so hard I nearly fell forward on my face

"Why? Where?"

I had to run along with hie Road

"We need to catch a cab"