Yes,yes, the Birmingham current Street refit is all very good, or but its bleakness made it perfect for a break-up. Am I supposed to go to Euston next time? Or Crewe?Break-ups destroy parks. And cafes. They lay waste to restaurants,pollute rivers; I’ve known break-ups that can waste a whole city. When you break up with someone – lay your shrivelled heart across their knees before kicking them in the chest by saying you no longer feel the same – you never, ever want to return to the scene of the crime. Break up in a wood, or you will never again walk through that wood; break up in a bar and you will never again drink in that bar.
After one particularly painful break-up in a much-loved leatherette cafe in Leeds,I had a revelation; we need better break-up venues. Specially designated, government-funded, and municipal spaces where tear-weary,lustless couples can go to untie the knot.
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Source: theguardian.com