Russell and Carol - hayle and hearty

“In the far corner there’s a table of six tucking into their roast dinners.   Three couples, one of the women cooing over the gravy, one of the men letting his wife tuck a napkin into his shirt.   You’d probably find a photo of the same six somewhere from thirty years ago, tanned and smiling, all raising glasses of sangria to the camera as a Spanish waiter took their photo.   There’d be no napkin being tucked in, but the friendships would be the same, and the six of them would swear they hadn’t aged until you showed them the photograph..”

 

"― Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune
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