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Gripping the Arm of the Sofa

Hello! This week, we're transatlantic, like a pair of Freddie Laker mother-effers.


Sara is in the suburbs of Chicago, and wants to be left alone. Geoff is in Stoke Newington, and wishes he wasn't being left alone. Somehow, remarkably, we can watch the same TV. What an era.


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