Vanity. Ares

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watch her buy bits and pieces I simply deemed
junk. "It's the little stuff that matters Ares," she
would say. Usually I replied, "Are we going to be
any longer?" "You've got no imagination," she
once replied and I guess she impressed upon me
an insight into the reality of growing up, as it
seemed that one's imagination would reduce as
the years passed by, but from Claire's perspective
it increased. She told me that she had spent a
little time in a madhouse, and I would notice that
she was open to acting on a whim. This was
apparent after one day sitting in her flat drinking
with her and her neighbour Bobby, whom had
such a large nose that I would find it difficult to
not be distracted by it. "Do you want to try some
B?" said Bobby (B being for Heroin). "Sure, let's!"
replied a drunken Claire, in a fashion that was as
casual as can be, and so casual that I thought that
if I were not there she would have gone along
with this plan. I of course stopped her in her
tracks as for me the buck stopped at Cocaine:
Heroin was just going too far.
Bobby soon left and I made sure that
he rarely came to drink with us again. Apart from
this whimsical strand to her character Claire was a
simple person to get along with, being that she
mostly enjoyed watching television. We would
watch Eastenders and this would add a structure
to my life I probably never had before this. I of
course wanted to be out and about making
money, but I enjoyed those times, mostly because
it added a calm to my life, and as we watched in
silence nothing was expected of me and this
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