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‘Ed & Nicola... will they? Won’t they?’

ON REFLECTION I think it’s the eyes that do it.

They follow you around the room.

Like when you see a portrait in a haunted house. It looks normal enough at first glance but you can’t shake the feeling there’s something nasty lurking behind it, squinting out at you.

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