Two girls are huddled outside a shop in the cold. One has turned up the collar of her tweed overcoat. The other is wearing a green bobble hat and a thick scarf of many colours. I ask my question. The girl in the tweed overcoat answers first. Her friend is surprised by the answer. 'My Mum is Italian', she says, 'so it was going to be Teresa' (the italics indicate an Italian accent and hand gesture). 'But then she was moving to London so she wanted to make it a bit more...' 'Street?' I suggest. 'Urban', she replies. I check the spelling.
She looks towards her friend. 'What's yours?' she asks. The girl in the bobble hat gives an answer. 'French?' I ask. 'No, just boring', she replies.
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