For virtually all my life, until the last few years, I lived in properties within half a mile of each other in southeast London. Even the hospital I was born in was within that area.
During that time I thought it unthinkable that I would ever live anywhere else. But then divorce triggered a completely new life, living part of the time with a new partner …
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