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• I asked the shopkeeper – a rockabilly girl with biker-gang tattoos – if I could buy the graduation display, but then come back and pick it up in a few hours.
• ‘No’, she said, ‘I have close the shop and go bail out my boyfriend in about twenty minutes. He’s Scottish.’
• ‘Oh’, I said.
• ‘His ex-girlfriend in Scotland wants him back, so she charged him with assault. Now Border Services is holding him because they think that he came to Canada to dodge the warrant. What a bitch.’