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were the extra photos she had demanded, as the orig-inal ones, she said, were somewhat blurry, and then the extra exchange of messages she required to get to know each other better, and finally – listen to this - the phone-calls she went out of her way to make in order to “hear his voice”. Where one adhered to the “talk is cheap” school of thought, the other got chills at the idea of meeting up, even in a neutral space, with a man she did not know. Had her parents gone a bit overboard when she was little with the whole never-talk-to-strangers sermon? Did she sit in front of the TV for hours, watching police news reports and thrill-ers? Had she lived through some kind of traumatic ex-perience? Who knows? Either way, it was as though – like the one (what-was-her-name again?) he met up with at Syntagma Square, or the other one (her name was on the tip of his tongue) before Easter at Psyri9, and what’s-her-face who finally agreed to a date at Gazarte10 the day before yesterday – she believed that she was surrounded – that’s what she seemed like to him – if not by serial killers, by at least rogues and scoundrels, who feared neither God nor man, and who, just to be on the safe side, she made sure she

9 Gentrified neighbourhood in Athens known for its restaurants and live music bars.

10 Art and culture multiplex in Athens.