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End of the road
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We were not, at the time, living in our own house. We had subsidence there, so we had moved into a flat elsewhere while the house was underpinned. However on that particular Sunday afternoon we had come back to check how the work was progressing, and to pick up our mail. We found a parking place round the corner and then walked back to our home. As we did so, I registered in my mind – fleetingly, almost subliminally – that there was someone