You should hear the guys at the snooker club. What’s that boy of yours doing nowadays? Still messing about with those worms?

The fact that people back away from me uncomfortably bothers me less and less as I grow older. People never really were my thing anyway. My colleagues at the Institute call me Early Bird behind my back. I don’t mind. I don’t care.

EARLY BIRD BY HENK HOPMAN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 25

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