Letter 3 - Letters From London

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. -- Joan Didion

On the first weekend they are in London, he and Dustin travel out to Stoke Newington to have brunch with their friend Florian. They decide to sit upstairs in the front of the double-decker bus out from Bloomsbury. A woman and her teenaged daughter sit in the seats next to them, looking side by side out the window. The mother speaks. She tells a story ab…